A Sport and a Pastime (22 page)
Salter lives with Eldredge in New York City and Colorado.
Salter with his mother.
Salter at age fourteen, while a student at the Horace Mann School.
A Delahaye coupe, the car that Salter first glimpsed in a dealership when visiting Paris in his twenties. A version of this car would play a central role in
A Sport and a Pastime,
and Salter would eventually own a similar one.
A 1952 photo of Salter standing in front of his jet fighter, an F-86, in Korea during the Korean War. The small red star indicates a kill.
Salter with his first wife, Ann, and twins, James and Claude, in 1962.
Salter directing the film
Three
, starring Charlotte Rampling and Sam Waterson, in 1968.
Salter in a Paris hotel room around the age of forty-eight, circa 1973.
Salter at age fifty-seven with his daughter, Nina, now a publisher in Paris, in 1982.
Salter with wife Kay on New Year’s Eve, 1986.
Salter with wife Kay and son Theo in France, 1988
Salter in 2011.
Images courtesy of James Salter and Checkerboard Film Foundation.
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copyright © 1967, renewed 1995 by James Salter.
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