SALTER, James | Notebook. Burning the Days notes

N.P.: James Salter, undated [circa 1990–97]. 8vo.; staple-bound; grey wrappers; shaken.  James Arnold Horowitz, better-known by his pen name James Salter, was born in 1925 and grew up on Manhattan’s East Side. He attended West Point, as had his father, and graduated in 1945, just as World War II was ending. For the next 12 years, he was a pilot in the Air Force. When he left the military, it was to pursue a full-time writing career, as a screenwriter, and as the author of a volume of short stories and five novels, at least two of which, A Sport and a Pastime [New York: Doubleday, 1967] and Light Years [New York: Random House, 1975], have the feel of classics. Salter was the writer’s writer par excellence—if not prolific, extraordinarily accomplished. In his unconventional memoir Burning the Days [New York: Random House, 1997], Salter captures his singular life, remarkable for early adventures in aviation and later cinematic and literary pursuits that stretched over more than six decade