Quote of the day
Everyone confesses in the abstract that exertion which brings out all the powers of body and mind is the best thing for us all; but practically most people do all they can to get rid of it, and as a general rule nobody does much more than circumstances drive them to do.
Mark Salzman

Born: December 3, 1959 (age 66)
Bio: Mark Joseph Salzman 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.
Known for:
- Iron & Silk (1986)
- True notebooks (2003)
- Lying Awake (2000)
- Lost In Place: Growing Up Absurd in Suburbia (1995)
- The Soloist (1994)






