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.Julia Blackburn is the author of several other works of nonfiction, including "Charles Waterton" and "The Emperor's Last Island," and of two novels, "The Book of Color" and "The Leper's Companions," both of which were short-listed for the Orange Prize. Her most recent book, "Old Man Goya," was nominated for a National Book Critics Circle Award. Blackburn lives in England and Italy.