The writer of 'A Sport and a Pastime' never achieved widespread or commercial success but was revered by his admirers.
A writer's writer: James Salter (1925-2015) at his home in Bridgeham Photo: AP Photo/Ed Betz
The Telergraph - 20 June 2015
Prize-winning American novelist and short-story writer James Salter has died, at the age of 90.
Salter – whose novels include A Sport and a Pastime (1967), Light Years (1975) and All That Is (2013) – died on Friday in Sag Harbor, New York state. He was once described by James Wolcott in Vanity Fair as America’s most “underrated underrated author”. For, depite being renowned and adored in literary and academic circles for the intimacy and meticulous beauty of his prose, and awarded the PEN/Faulkner prize for the 1988’s “Dusk and Other Stories”, he never found popular acclaim.
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