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Salter is considered one of the finest "writers' writers" in the U.S. in the second half of the 20th century. Born in 1925 in Passaic, NJ, Salter had his work published in _Poetry_ magazine while still in high school. His father, a former West Pointer, convinced him to attend the military institute... See full bio »

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James Horowitz
in Passaic, New Jersey, USA
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2004/III Last Night (short) (story)
 
1996 Broken English
 
1996 Boys (short story "Twenty Minutes")
 
1981 Threshold (written by)
 
1969/I Three (uncredited)
 
1969 Downhill Racer (writer)
 
1969 The Appointment (screenplay)
 
1958 The Hunters (novel)
 
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1969/I Three
 
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1996 Boys (special thanks)
 
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2012 Plimpton! Starring George Plimpton as Himself (documentary)
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2011 James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (video documentary)
 
2010 La grande librairie (TV series)
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– Episode #2.16 (2010) … Himself
 
2007 Operation Homecoming: Writing the Wartime Experience (documentary)
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Other Works:

The Hunters (NY: Harper, 1956) (novel) See more »

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Personal Quote:

The notion that anything can be invented wholly and that these invented things are classified as fiction and that other writing, presumably not made up, is called nonfiction strikes me as a very arbitrary separation of things. We know that most great novels and stories come from not things that are entirely invented... See more »

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Salter's high school (Horace Mann) classmates included Julian Beck and Jack Kerouac. See more »

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