Mark Salzman
Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3, 1959, in Greenwich, Connecticut) is an American writer. Salzman is best known for his 1986 memoir ''Iron & Silk'', which describes his experiences living in China as an English teacher in the early 1980s.Salzman grew up in Ridgefield, Connecticut, the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father. He studied Chinese Language and Literature at Yale University. He graduated Phi Beta Kappa, summa cum laude in 1982 and spent the next two years in Changsha, Hunan, teaching English at and studying martial arts with Pan Qingfu, a Chinese martial arts teacher and kung fu movie actor. His experiences in China are recounted in his first book, ''Iron & Silk: A young American encounters swordsmen, bureaucrats and other citizens of contemporary China'', published in 1986. Salzman received several literary awards for ''Iron & Silk''. The book was made into a 1990 film of the same title. Salzman wrote the screenplay and starred as himself in the film. Though the real venue of the story was in Changsha, the film was shot in Hangzhou, Zhejiang, China.
Salzman plays the cello. In high school, he played the cello for the Norwalk Youth Symphony. In 1996, he performed as guest cellist with YoYo Ma, pianist Emmanuel Ax, and others at Alice Tully Hall for the 20th anniversary performance of Live From Lincoln Center.
After receiving his 2000 Guggenheim Fellowship, Mark Salzman spent time as a stay-at-home parent. Salzman, along with three other men, was featured in the 2007 documentary ''Protagonist'', directed by his wife, Jessica Yu. In 2011 he presented a multimedia monologue, ''An Atheist in Freefall,'' at the New York Public Library as part of the exhibition ''Three Faiths: Judaism, Christianity, Islam''.
Salzman continued writing fiction and nonfiction after ''Iron and Silk.'' These include a memoir on growing up in suburbia, and one on his work as a creative writing instructor for juvenile delinquents. The most recent is his 2012 memoir, ''The Man in the Empty Boat'', about his search for equanimity after personal catastrophes, which included his sister's untimely death and his own nervous breakdown. Common to his later works is a theme of struggling to reach an ideal but falling short, and the quiet changes within a person who faces the possibility of never achieving their goal. Salzman continues to perform the cello; in January 2020 he and his daughter gave a benefit performance for the Hakone Foundation, in Saratoga California.
Salzman and his wife Jessica Yu, a fellow Yale graduate and an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, have two daughters. The family makes their home in Southern California. Provided by Wikipedia
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Iron and silk by Salzman, Mark
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The laughing sutra : a novel by Salzman, Mark
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Lying awake by Salzman, Mark
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Iron & silk by Salzman, Mark
New Brunswick, N.J. : Transaction Publishers, 2000
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True notebooks by Salzman, Mark
New York : Vintage Books : Distributed by Random House, 2003
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True notebooks by Salzman, Mark
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True notebooks : a writer's year at Juvenile Hall by Salzman, Mark
New York : Vintage Books, 2004; 2003
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Lying awake by Salzman, Mark
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Lying awake by Salzman, Mark
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True notebooks : a writer's year at juvenile hall by Salzman, Mark
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Lost in place : growing up absurd in suburbia by Salzman, Mark
New York : Random House, 1995
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The soloist by Salzman, Mark
New York : Random House, 1994
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The soloist by Salzman, Mark
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True notebooks by Salzman, Mark
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Iron & silk by Salzman, Mark
New York : Vintage Books, 1987
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The soloist by Salzman, Mark
New York : Mark House, 1994
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Iron & silk = 鐡與絲 /by Salzman, MarkNew York : Random House, 1986
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Iron & silk
Santa Monica, Calif. : Lions Gate Home Entertainment, 2004Other Authors: “…Salzman, Mark…”
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Protagonist
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