James Salter was a Prize-winning American novelist and short-story writer.Very few people knows that he was a former US fighter pilot, flew in the Korean War along with astronaut Buzz Aldrin (Second man on moon).
First Novel: The Hunters (1956)
Famous novels: A Sport and a Pastime (1967), Light Years (1975) and All That Is (2013).
He passed away on 19th June 2014 at a gym near his New York state home.