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Biographie d'A. J. Liebling

A. J. Liebling, born in Manhattan in 1904, joined the staff of The New Yorker in 1935 and contributed innumerable articles to the magazine throughout his lifetime, on subjects ranging from food to boxing, France to horse racing. As a war correspondent during the Second World War, he reported from France, England and Algeria, and participated in the Normandy landings. In later life he married the writer Jean Stafford, his third wife.
He died in 1963. James Salter is the author of the novels Solo Faces, Light Years, A Sport and a Pastime, The Arm of Flesh (revised as Cassada) and The Hunters ; the memoirs Gods of Tin and Burning the Days ; and the collection Dusk and Other Stories, which won the 1989 PEN /Faulkner Award. He lives in Colorado and on Long Island.