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Ada (Nabokov)

Agee, James

Aimeé, Anouk

“Akhnilo” (Salter)

Aldrin, Buzz

Algonquin

All That Is (Salter)

aesthetic

artistic comparison

character development

comparison to other works

epigraph

excerpt interpretation

imagery

inception

media

personal attributes

plot

publication

reception

religious themes

sexism

title

“Virginia”

writing process. See also Bowman, Phillip

Allfree, Claire

Altemus, Ann

Alvarez, A.

“Am Strande von Tanger” (Salter)

American Academy and Institute of Arts and Letters

“American Express” (Salter)

plot

publication

television production

Salter on

story development

writing process

“American Playhouse”

American Short Story Masterpieces

Anderson, Sherwood

Angell, Roger

Antonioni, Michelangelo

Appointment, The

“Arlington” (Salter)

Arm of Flesh, The (Salter)

military influence

plot

printing

publication

revision

writing process

Armory Show

Army Air Corps

Arthur, George K.

As I Lay Dying (Faulkner)

“As They Were: American Masters through the Lens of James Salter”

Aspen, Colorado: essay on

history

initial visit

residence

tourism

writing in

Aspen Institute

Atlantic

Atlantic Fiction for Kindle

Autun, France

Babel, Isaac

commentary

influence

works

writing process

Baker, Fred

Bangkok (Salter)

“Bangkok” (Salter)

Banville, John

Barefoot in the Park

Barnes, Julian

Barnett, Edward

Beat Notre Dame

Beattie, Ann

Beattie, Bob

Beautiful Indifference, The (Hall)

Beck, Rosemarie

Becker, Bruce

Bedford, Sybille

Begley, Adam

Beinecke Library

Bellow, Saul

commentary

comparison

friendship

influence

writing process

Benton, Jessica

Benton, William

Berryman, John

Best American Essays

Best American Short Stories

Between Meals: An Appetite for Paris (Liebling)

Bilmes, Alex

Black Spring

Blackwood, Caroline (Lady)

Blixen, Bror

Bloom, Harold

Bluhdorn

Bodley Head

Bonnard, Pierre

Bonnet, Honoré

Book of Common Prayer, The

Book Review. See New York Times Book Review

Booker Prize

Books and Co.

Bowman, David

Bowman, Phillip: aesthetic

character development

character summary

chronology

comparison to Salter

imagery

inspiration for

narrative

reader perception

visual depiction

Boys

Brando, Marlon

Breakfast Room, The (Bonnard)

Bridgehampton, Long Island: changes

residence

writing in

Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao, The (Diaz)

Brinkman, Lefty

Brooks, John

Brophy, Brigid

Brown, James Oliver

Broyard, Anatole

Bukowski, Charles

Burke, Robert E.

Burning the Days (Salter)

correspondence

excerpt

family

“Icarus”

influences

inspiration

journalism

military experience

narrative

nostalgia

publication

purpose

rejection of works

resignation

review

revision

writing process

Burns, John Horne

Burroughs, William S.

Bury the Dead (Shaw)

Byron, Lord

Camus, Albert

Canadian Broadcasting Company

Cannes Film Festival

Cantos, The (Pound)

Capote, Truman

“Captain’s Wife, The” (Salter)

Carnegie Hall

Carson, Anne

Carver, Raymond

Cassada (Salter)

Cassius Le Grand

Castle to Castle (Céline)

Catch-22 (Heller)

Cavafy, C. P.

CBC. See Canadian Broadcasting Company

Céline, Louis-Ferdinand

Chamonix, France

“Charisma” (Salter)

Charlotte’s Web (White)

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Chaumont, France

Cheever, John

Chekhov, Anton

Choses vues (Hugo)

Chung, Sonya

Churchill, Winston

CINE

“Cinema, The” (Salter)

Circus

Cirillo, Dexter

Clarín

Clark, Eleanor

Cochran, Stacy

Cocteau, Jean

Cohen, Olivier

Colet, Louise

Colette

Collected Stories (Salter)

Collier, John

Collier’s

“Comet” (Salter)

favorite stories

plot structure

publication

theme

Condé Nast

Connolly, Cyril

Conroy, Frank

Cooper, Gary

Cossacks

Counterpoint

Cozzens, James Gould

d’Annunzio, Gabriele

“Dante Street” (Babel)

de Beauvoir, Simone

de Kooning, Willem

de Maupassant, Guy

de Montherlant, Henry

de Sade, Marquis

de Segonzac, André

Dee, Jonathan

DeLillo, Don

“Destruction of the Goetheanum, The” (Salter)

DeWeese, Dan

Diaz, Junot

Dickens, Charles

Dictionary of Literary Biography

Didion, Joan

Dinesen, Isak

influence

works

Dirda, Michael

“Dirt” (Salter)

Donald Windham–Sandy M. Campbell Literature Prize

Dos Passos, John

Dostoevsky, Fyodor

Doubleday

Dowie, William

Downhill Racer: film

film success

plot

production

research

screenplay writing

Draper, Don

Dreiser, Theodore

Ducrot Pepys

Dun, Tan

Duras, Marguerite

“Dusk” (Salter)

Dusk: And Other Stories (Salter)

award

cadence

characters

favorite stories

inspiration

publication

reception

technique

Earthly Paradise (Colette)

Ediciones Salamandra

Éditions des Deux Terres

Eggers, Dave

Eiger

Ekström, Patrik

Eldredge, Kay

collaboration

influence on writing

marriage

personal work

Ellis, Toni

“Embassy of Cambodia, The” (Smith)

English-Speaking Union Ambassador Book Award

Ephron, Nora

Epictetus

Esquire

autobiographical work

general publication

initial praise

interview

memoir publication

Essays on the Literature of Mountaineering

Excelsior Hotel

“Eyes of the Stars” (Salter)

F. Scott Fitzgerald Award for Achievement in American Literature

Faulkner, William

film writing

influence

on short stories

works

writing process

Fellini, Federico

“Fields at Dusk, The” (Salter)

Firestone, Ross

First World War

Fisher, M. F. K.

Fitzgerald, F. Scott

Flaubert, Gustave

Float Like a Butterfly, Sting Like a Bee

Fonda, Jane

Ford, Ford Madox

Ford, Richard: friendship

introduction to Light Years

praise

“Foreign Shores” (Salter)

Fox, Joe

friendship

legacy of Salter’s work

publication of work

Franden, Robert

Franzen, Jonathan

Fraser, Antonia

Friedan, Betty

From Here to Eternity (Jones)

Frost, Tom

Fuchs, Daniel

Gaghan, Steve

Gallery, The (Burns)

Garnier, Philippe

Gaudí, Antoni

Genet, Jean

Georgetown University

Georgy Girl

Gide, André

Gill, Brendan

Ginna, Robert Emmett, Jr.

Giroux, Robert

“Give” (Salter)

Glenville, Peter

Godard, Jean-Luc

Godfather, The

Gods of Tin (Salter)

Gogol, Nikolai

Golden West: Hollywood Stories, The (Fuchs)

Goldman, William

Good Soldier, The (Ford)

Goodbye, Bear

Goodbye, Louis Heyward, and All That

Gotham Book Mart

Graham, Jorie

Grand Street

Grasse, France

Great Barrington, Massachusetts

Greben, Rachel

Greene, Graham

Grissom, Virgil “Gus”

Grove Press Films

Guard of Honor (Cozzens)

“Guy de Maupassant” (Babel)

Guyotat, Pierre

Hadada Award (Paris Review)

Hall, Sarah

Hallelujah the Hills

Harlin, John

Harper & Brothers (Harper Brothers)

Harper & Row

Harper’s

Harper’s Bazaar

Harry Ransom Center

Harvard Book Store

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hax, Andrés

Hazzard, Shirley

Hearn, Lafcadio

Heller, Joseph

Hemingway, Ernest

comparison

Salter on

work

writing process

Hemming, Gary

Henderson the Rain King (Bellow)

Heroes and Orators (Phelps)

Herr, Michael

Heyward, Louis

Hillary, Richard

Hills, Rust

Hilton, Paris

Hirsch, Edward

Hitchens, Christopher

Hollins, Vicky

Holmes, Michael

Horace Mann School

Horowitz, George

Horowitz, James Arnold. See also Salter, James

Horowitz, Mildred

Hugo, Victor

Hunters, The (Salter)

autobiographical work

comparison to other works

debut

film

location

military experience

plot

printing

publication

purpose

rejection

revision

theme

In the French Style

Institute Alliance Française

Interview (magazine)

Iowa Writers’ Workshop

Irving, John

James Salter (Dowie)

James Salter: A Sport and a Pastime (documentary)

James Salter Archive

Jenks, Tom

Jerome Hotel

John Steinbeck Award

Johnson, Jeanine

Jones, James

influence

screenplay

work

Jouhandeau, Marcel

Kafka, Franz

Kapnick Distinguished Writer-in-Residence

Kaputt

Keats, John

Kerouac, John (Jack)

commentary

education

influence

Kidd, Billy

“Killers, The” (Hemingway)

Killy, Jean-Claude

Kipling, Rudyard

Klein, William

Knopf

Knowles, John

Koestler, Arthur

Koran

Korean War: journal

as part of work

Salter experience

Krementz, Jill

Kubrick, Stanley

Laclos, Pierre Choderlos de

Laporte, Arnaud

Larkin, Philip

“Last Night” (Salter)

Last Night: Stories (Salter)

dedication

favorite stories

form

theme

Lawrence, D. H.

Léautaud, Paul

Leduc, Violette

Lee, Jonathan

Lelouch, Claude

Les Enfants du Paradis

Les Liaisons Dangereuses (Laclos)

Lewis, Jerry

Lewis, Norman

L’Homme des Hautes Solitudes (Salter). See also Solo Faces

Liebling, A. J.

Life Is Meals: A Food Lover’s Book of Days (Salter and Eldredge): concept

publication

writing process

Light Years (Salter)

award

characters

composition of book

excerpt interpretation

framework

inspiration

plot

publication

reception

rejection

reviews

Salter on

style

theme

Viri

Listener

Littauer, Kenneth

Little, Brown

“Little Bouilloux Girl, The” (Colette)

Lolita (Nabokov)

Lorca, Federico García

Lord, Sheridan

Loren, Sophia

Lorentz, Pare

“Lost Sons” (Salter)

Lover, The

Lowell, Ivana

Lowell, Robert

Lucas, George

Lumet, Sidney

Mad Men

Mahler, Gustav

Mailer, Norman

Malaparte, Curzio

Matisse, Henri

Matthiessen, Peter

Maxwell, William

McCarthy, Mary

McDormand, Frances

Meehan, Sandy Gotham

Mekas, Adolfas

Memorable Days (Salter and Phelps)

correspondence

foreword

included works

publication

writing process

Menand, Louis

Mercantile Library-Clifton Fadiman Medal

Mewshaw, Sean

Michener, James

Miller, Henry

controversial work

influence

literary quality

Millions, The

Mishima, Yukio

M.I.T.

Mitchum, Robert

Modern Library

Montreux Palace Hotel

Moore, Lorrie

Morris, Willie

Moveable Feast, A (Hemingway)

Movie People: At Work in the Business of Film (Baker and Firestone)

Munch, Edvard

Munro, Alice

Museum of Modern Art

“My First Goose” (Babel)

“My Heart Laid Bare”

“My Lord You” (Salter)

My Mother’s House (Colette)

My Son, My Son

Nabokov, Véra

Nabokov, Vladimir: influence

interview

works

“Naked and the Conflicted, The”

Naples ’44 (Lewis)

Napoleon

Narrative Magazine

National Geographic

“Nedra and Viri” (Salter)

NET-TV

New Directions

New York Film Festival

New York Mercantile Library

New York State Edith Wharton Citation of Merit

New York Times

profile

publication of other work

publication of Salter’s work

review

New York Times Book Review

New York Times Sunday Book Review

New Yorker

profile

publication of other work

publication of Salter’s work

review

Nexus (Miller)

“Night School” (Carver)

No Exit (Sartre)

Normandie

North Point Press

Notre Dame de Paris (cathedral)

O. Henry Prize Stories

Oates, Joyce Carol

Obermeyer, Klaus

Object Lessons (Stein and Stein)

O’Brien, Edna

O’Connor, Flannery

Of Time and the River (Wolfe)

Offutt, Chris

On the Road (Kerouac)

Ondaatje, Michael

Open Road Media

Out of Africa (Dinesen)

Paepcke, Walter

Pale Fire (Nabokov)

Paley, Grace

“Palm Court” (Salter)

Paramount

Paris Match

Paris Review

award

interviews

publication

Paris Review Editions

Paris Review Revel

“Patriotism” (Mishima)

Paumgarten, Nick

Pavese, Cesare

PBS

Pearce, Richard

PEN Center USA Award for Creative Nonfiction

PEN/Faulkner Award

PEN/Lifetime Achievement Award

PEN/Malamud Award

Penguin Modern Classics

People

Perkins, Maxwell

Phelps, Robert: correspondence

influence

introduction

Photography Magazine

Pier 94 Manhattan

Pinter, Harold

“Platinum” (Salter)

Plexus (Miller)

Plimpton, George

publication of Salter work

Ploesti

Poe, Edgar Allan

Poetry (magazine)

Pointer (West Point)

Polanski, Roman

Pollock, Jackson

Pope, Dan

Porter, Robie

Pound, Ezra

Powell, Anthony

Powell, Dick

Prévert, Jacques

Price, Reynolds

Propeller

Rabalais, Kevin

Rabinovitch, Sandra

Radin, Sam

Rampling, Charlotte

Random House

Ransom Center. See Harry Ransom Center

Rea Award

Redford, Robert: collaboration with Salter

friendship

initial film involvement

role in Downhill Racer

Reed, Rex

Renoir, Auguste

Renoir, Jean: influence

quotation

Rilke, Rainer Maria

Rising Sun, The (Toland)

Ritchie, Michael

River, The

Robbins, Royal

Robison, Mary

Rockwell, Norman

Roiphe, Katie

Rorem, Ned

Roth, Hans Ingvar

Roth, Phillip

Rotten to the Core

Sabich, Spider

Sag Harbor

Saint-Exupéry, Antoine de

Salinger, J. D.

Salon

Salter, Allan Conrad

Salter, Claude Cray

Salter, James Owen

Salter, Kay. See Eldredge, Kay

Salter, Nina Tobe

Salter, Theo Shaw

Sand, George

Sargent, John Singer

Sayles, John

Sebald, W. G.

Second World War. See also World War II

Semple, Lorenzo

Sequestro di Persona

“Sex, Seriously: James Salter Trumps the Great Male Novelists”

Sexus (Miller)

Sharif, Omar

Shaw, Irwin: collaboration

friendship

influence

Salter adaptation

Salter on

works

Shelley, Percy Bysshe

Shoemaker, Jack

Simon, John

“Simple Heart, A” (Flaubert)

Singer, Armand

“Single Daring Act, A” (Salter)

Slate, Lane

Smith, Dinitia

Smith, Jean Kennedy

Smith, Zadie

Soderbergh, Steven

Sohn, Tim

Soldiers Once and Still: Ernest Hemingway, James Salter, and Tim O’Brien (Vernon)

Solo Faces (Salter)

Cabot

characters

inception

plot

publication

reception

research

revision

screenplay into novel

theme

Vernon Rand

Sonnenberg, Ben

Sontag, Susan

Speak, Memory (Nabokov)

Spillane, Mickey

Sport and a Pastime, A (Salter)

Anne-Marie

comparison to other works

Dean

eroticism

inception

inspiration

narrative

publication

reception

rejection

reviews

Salter on

theme

Star Wars

Steadman, Ralph

Steck, Ueli

Steele, Gordon

Steiger, Rod

Steinbeck, John

Stendhal

Still Such (Salter)

Strachan, Pat

Strait Is the Gate (Gide)

Straus, Roger

Styron, William

“Such Fun” (Salter)

Summit, New Jersey

Sun Also Rises, The (Hemingway)

Susann, Jacqueline

Sutherland, Donald

Suyin, Han

Swados, Harvey

Tales of the South Pacific (Michener)

Taylor, Elizabeth

Taylor, Peter

Team Team Team

Telegraph

Tennyson, Alfred

“Then We Were Three” (Shaw)

There and Then: The Travel Writing of James Salter

Thomas, Evan

Thompson, Hunter S.

Three

collaboration

directing

film development

reception

Salter on

Threshold

Time

Tin House

Toland, John

Tolstoy, Leo

Top Gun

Towers, Robert

Town and the City, The (Kerouac)

Traffic

Trollope, Anthony

Tropic of Cancer (Miller)

Truffaut, François

Turgenev, Ivan

Twain, Mark

Twayne Publishers

“Twenty Minutes” (Salter)

Under Milk Wood (Thomas)

United Artists

University of Houston

University of Notre Dame

University of Texas at Austin

University of Virginia

Updike, John

comparison

work

writing process

Vanity Fair

Vassar College

Venice Film Festival

Vernon, Alex

“Via Negativa” (Salter)

Victim, The (Bellow)

Vidal, Gore

Vogue

Wachtel, Eleanor

Wagner, Robert

Wahlström and Widstrand

Warren, Robert Penn

Washington Post Book World

Waterston, Sam

Waugh, Evelyn

Weaver, Richard

Web and the Rock, The (Wolfe)

Weidenfeld, George

Weiner, Matthew

Welty, Eudora

Wescott, Glenway

Wheeler, Frank

White, E. B.

White, Ed

Whitman, Walt

“Wife of Nashville, A” (Taylor)

Wilde, Oscar

Wilder, Thornton

Wilkinson, Alec

Williams, Joy

Williams, Tennessee

Williams College

Winsten, Archer

“Winter of the Lion” (Salter)

Wolcott, James

Wolfe, Thomas: early education

influence

publisher

writing culture

Wolff, Tobias

Wood, James

Wood, Natalie

Woolf, Virginia

Wooster, Richard

World War II. See also Second World War

“Worn Path, A” (Welty)

“Writers & Company,”

Writer’s Desk, The (Krementz)

Wyler, William

Yale University

Yates, Richard

Yosemite

“You Must” (Salter)

Young Lions, The (Shaw)

Ziolkowski, Thad

Zoetrope

Zuckerman, Kathy