Mark Salzman Biography

Mark Salzman is an award-winning novelist and nonfiction author who has written on a variety of subjects from a novel about a Carmelite nun's ecstatic visions and crisis of faith to a compelling memoir about growing up a misfit in a Connecticut suburb clearly displaying a range that transcends genre. As a boy all Salzman ever wanted was to be a Kung Fu master but it was his proficiency on the cello that facilitated his acceptance to Yale at the age of 16. He soon changed his major to Chinese language and philosophy which took him to mainland China where he taught English for two years and studied martial arts. He never gave up music though and Salzman's cello playing appears on the soundtrack to several films including the Academy Award-winning documentary Breathing Lessons: The Life and Work of Mark O'Brien. He has also played with Yo-Yo Ma and pianist Emanuel Ax at Lincoln Center. Salzman's unusual combination of talents as both a well-known author and a concert-proficient cellist led to a feature profile about him in The New Yorker magazine. He was also recently presented with the Algonquin West Hollywood Literary Award.

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