Novelist James Salter Named Winner of 1989 PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction

A panel of American writers today named James Salter winner of the ninth annual PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction for his 1988 collection of short stories, “Dusk” (North Point Press).

Salter, 63, grew up in New York where he still lives. He is the author of five novels written between 1957 and 1979--”The Hunters”, “The Arm of Flesh,” “A Sport and a Pastime,” “Light Years” and “Solo Faces.” His short stories were first published in the Paris Review in the 1960s. “Dusk” is his first collection of short fiction.

Salter will receive a $7,500 award at a ceremony May 13 at the Folger Shakespeare Library in Washington. The four other nominated writers, who will receive $2,500 each, are: Thomas Flanagan (“The Tenants of Time,” Dutton); Mary McGarry Morris (“Vanished,” Viking); Thomas Savage (“The Corner of Rife and Pacific,” Morrow) and Isaac Bashevis Singer (“The Death of Methuselah,” Farrar Straus Giroux).

The judges were Alan Cheuse, Frank Conroy and Marita Golden.