MARK SALZMAN

WRITING

From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. 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, Conn., the oldest child of a piano teacher mother and a social worker father.