Mark Salzman

Mark Joseph Salzman (born December 3, 1959 in Greenwich, Connecticut ) is an American writer, who was best known for his 1986 China report Iron and Silk .

Life

Mark Salzman grew up in Ridgefield , Connecticut, USA, as the eldest child of a piano teacher and social worker.

He studied Chinese language and literature at Yale University , graduated with a top grade and went to Changsha , the capital of the Chinese province of Hunan , for two years in 1982 to teach English at the Hunan Medical College (湖南 医学院). At the same time he practiced Chinese martial arts with the renowned Wushu teacher Pan Qingfu (潘清福).

The book " Iron and Silk " was filmed in 1990 based on a script by Salzman with himself in the lead role.

Works

German

• The laughing sutra . Novel. Droemer Knaur, 1995. ISBN 978-3-4260-3244-2
• The soloist . Droemer Knaur, 1996. ISBN 978-3-4266-0491-5
• Iron and silk. Encounters with China . Droemer Knaur, 1999. ISBN 978-3-4260-3084-4
• Frisbee, Buddha and Kung Fu . Droemer Knaur, 1997. ISBN 978-3-4266-0498-4

English

• Iron & Silk (1986), ISBN 0-394-55156-7
• The Laughing Sutra (1991)
• The Soloist (1994)
• Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (1995)
• Lying Awake (2000)
• True Notebooks (2003)
• The Man in the Empty Boat (2012)

Web links

• Meet Mark Salzman (English Youtube video)
• After a turbulent time, he floats in smoother water (English)
• Iron and silk (extract)