James Salter was the acclaimed author of the novels A Sport and a Pastime, Light Years, and All That Is, the memoir Burning the Days, and the PEN/Faulkner Award-winning collection Dusk and Other Stories. He was the first Kapnick Foundation Distinguished Writer-in-Residence at the University of Virginia, a position inspired by William Faulkner's residency at the university in 1956-58.
