Salzman, Mark

Thirty-four-year-old Renne Sundheimer, a cello teacher at UCLA, has been deprived of a normal youth due to his early promise as a musical prodigy and his close relationship with his instructor, but he is forced to finally engage with life when he is called to serve on the jury for the trial of a Zen student accused of killing his master, and he takes on a brilliant new pupil.

Memoir of author, Mark Salzman, who tried, with often humorous results, to rise above the everyday normalcy of his childhood.

A young man from a remote village in China and a mysterious stranger journey from Hong Kong to San Francisco in search of the Laughing Sutra, a Buddhist text.

Adventure featuring a warrior who travels through time to teach a boy orphaned by Mao's cultural revolution.

An American describes his experiences after his arrival in Hunan Province in 1982 to teach English, including his wushu training and life in post-Mao China.

Mark Salzman chronicles his first years teaching at Central Juvenile Hall, a lockup for Los Angeles's most violent teenage offenders, discussing what his students taught him about life.