Jeffrey Meyers – James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist

Author Event
* Sunday, April 28, 1:00 pm

For Jeffrey Meyers, Salter’s lyrical evocation of people and places, of luxurious decadence and the danger of death, are unsurpassed in contemporary literature. This book James Salter: Pilot, Screenwriter, Novelist appears just before the centenary of Salter’s birth.

Biographer and critic Jeffrey Meyers knew the novelist James Salter (1925-2015) during the last decade of his life, visited him twice on Long Island, and received eighty letters from him.

Meyers’s knowledge of Salter’s life provides many new insights about the personal, literary, and historical background of his work.

This appreciative book, the first full-length study in twenty-six years, is intended to introduce Salter to new readers and show his achievement as a writer of novels, stories, screenplays, memoirs, and travel essays.