benefit performance for the Hakone Foundation, in Saratoga California. Salzman and his wife Jessica Yu, an Academy Award-winning filmmaker, have two daughters. The family makes their home in Southern California. Works by Salzman Iron & Silk (1986), The Laughing Sutra (1991) The Soloist (1994) Lost in Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (1995) Lying Awake (2000) True Notebooks (2003), a book about his experience as a writing teacher in Central Juvenile Hall, as well as the inmates and their writing The Man in the Empty Boat (2012), about his struggles with anxiety and writer's block. References External links Steven Barclay Agency St. Charles Public Library Edward Morris, Teaching young toughs: Juvenile offenders find release in a creative writing class, Book Page, September 2003 1959 births Living people American cellists 20th-century American novelists 21st-century American novelists American memoirists American male novelists American wushu practitioners Writers from Greenwich, Connecticut People from Ridgefield, Connecticut Yale University alumni 20th-century American male writers 21st-century American male writers Novelists from Connecticut 20th-century American non-fiction writers 21st-century American non-fiction writers American male non-fiction writers