Background
Jack Richard Salamanca was born on December 10, 1922, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the son of Raoul Salamanca del Barco, a civil engineer, and Lucy Nuttall Salamanca del Barco, a writer.
Jack Richard Salamanca was born on December 10, 1922, in St. Petersburg, Florida. He was the son of Raoul Salamanca del Barco, a civil engineer, and Lucy Nuttall Salamanca del Barco, a writer.
From 1939 to 1942, Salamanca attended George Washington University. He also received a diploma from the Royal Academy of Dramatic Art in London, in 1953, and a Bachelor of Arts from the University of London in 1954.
In 1955, Jack received a diploma from the Royal Academy of Music in London, and studied acting at the Catholic University of America.
Jack Richard Salamanca served for three years in the U.S. Army Air Corps. For many years, he served as a professor of English and creative writing at Wayne State University, at the University of Connecticut and at the University of Maryland.
Salamanca is the author of the novels The Lost Country (1958), Lilith (1961), A Sea Change (1969), Embarkation (1973), Southern Light (1986) and That Summer’s Trance (2000). The Lost Country was filmed as Wild In The Country, Twentieth century-fox, 1961. The movie Lilith was directed by Robert Rossen for Columbia in 1964.
(A Sea Change is about the havoc wrought in marriage by th...)
1969(Benedict Oakshaw, a gifted young American actor at London...)
2000(The Lost Country is the story of a boy, Jim Blackstarr, w...)
1958(Southern Light tells the story of Dr. Carl Ransome, a lon...)
1986In 1945, Salamanca married Cecilia Garcia, but they divorced in 1950. The same year, he married Mimi Norton, an actress. Jack and Mimi had one son, Richard.
