Luke Salisbury

Luke Salisbury was born in Rhinebeck, New York. He grew up in Oyster Bay and Huntington, Long Island and attended the Hun School of Princeton. In 1965 he read The Great Gatsby and his fate was sealed. All he wanted to do was write as wellas that book was written, and if he couldn't do it, to try. In 1969 he graduated from New College in Sarasota, Florida, an experimental college that offered few rules and no grades. In 1984 he graduated from the Boston University Creative Writing Program. He taught at Bunker Hill Community College from 1984 to 2012.

Following Mr. Salisbury's graduation from New College, he taught third grade in the Bronx where he learned about America in a way that could not be learned in any other way. His first novel, The Cleveland Indian, inspired by the first Native American to play major league baseball, was published in 1992 by The Smith and reissued by Black Heron Press in 2007. No Common War is Mr. Salisbury's fourth book of fiction. He has published one book of nonfiction, The Answer is Baseball, called the best baseball book of 1989 by The Chicago Tribune.

Mr. Salisbury is a former secretary and vice-president of the Society for American Baseball Research and has contributed articles to many baseball books and magazines. His awards include Book of the Year (Online Review of Books & Current Affairs) and Best Historical Fiction 2006 (USABookNews), both for Hollywood & Sunset, his second novel.

He lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. Their son, Ace, is a filmmaker in Brooklyn.