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James Salter

1925 - 2015

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James Arnold Horowitz (June 10, 1925 – June 19, 2015), better known as James Salter, his pen name and later-adopted legal name, was an American novelist and short-story writer. Originally a career officer and pilot in the United States Air Force, he resigned from the military in 1957 following the successful publication of his first novel, The Hunters. After a brief career in film writing and film directing, in 1979 Salter published the novel Solo Faces. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of James Salter has received more than 389,047 page views. His biography is available in 19 different languages on Wikipedia. James Salter is the 4,750th most popular writer (down from 3,307th in 2019), the 6,476th most popular biography from United States (down from 4,337th in 2019) and the 521st most popular American Writer.

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  • 390k

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  • 48.27

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 19

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.54

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 2.82

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, James Salter ranks 4,750 out of 7,302. Before him are Jean Tardieu, Val McDermid, Joseph Meyer, Jacqueline Susann, C. A. Rosetti, and Juan de la Cueva. After him are Robert Ettinger, Rafael Sánchez Ferlosio, Jan Andrzej Morsztyn, Nigâr Hanım, Louise Otto-Peters, and Lucius Shepard.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1925, James Salter ranks 334. Before him are Peter Seeberg, Cornell Borchers, Benito Lorenzi, Jean Cau, John Baptist Wu, and Pyotr Todorovsky. After him are Iwao Takamoto, Armand Razafindratandra, James Mellaart, Medgar Evers, Luis Adolfo Siles Salinas, and Wolfgang Unzicker. Among people deceased in 2015, James Salter ranks 295. Before him are Jean Vautrin, Henry Carr, Driss Bamous, Boris Morukov, Maria Vicol, and Lev Durov. After him are Antonio Betancort, Malcolm Fraser, Eduardo Guerrero, Dolph Schayes, Karel Mejta Sr, and Candida Royalle.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, James Salter ranks 6,476 out of 20,380. Before him are Dominic Sena (1949), George Newbold Lawrence (1806), Charles Jewtraw (1900), Buddy Ebsen (1908), Milton S. Hershey (1857), and Gilda Radner (1946). After him are Robert Ettinger (1918), Rudy Van Gelder (1924), Mike Kelley (1954), Bill Frisell (1951), Abigail Fillmore (1798), and Hazel Hotchkiss Wightman (1886).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, James Salter ranks 521. Before him are Robert B. Parker (1932), Cordwainer Smith (1913), Rod Serling (1924), Damon Knight (1922), Aaron Sorkin (1961), and Jacqueline Susann (1918). After him are Robert Ettinger (1918), Sue Grafton (1940), R. J. Palacio (1963), Susan Brownmiller (1935), Gloria E. Anzaldúa (1942), and John D. MacDonald (1916).

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