James Salter
By: William Dowie.
Series: Twayne's United States authors series ;; no. 707; Twayne's United States authors series ;; TUSAS 707.
Publisher: Twayne Publishers; Prentice Hall International
Published: 1998
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 142
Subjects: Salter, James -- Criticism and interpretation.
Description: In this, the first book-length study of Salter, William Dowie distills the essence of Salter's literary achievement and discusses the vicissitudes of literary glory. With copious biographical material based upon personal interviews and a twelve-year correspondence, Dowie tracks Salter from his Manhattan youth and West Point days through careers as an Air Force pilot, screenwriter, and journalist, to his blossoming as a writer of novels and short stories.

What emerges is a portrait of the writer as a risk taker, willing to discard whole careers in his quest for literary immortality.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. 134-136) and index.