The people who tend the Woodlawn and Stevens Cemeteries, where Moreau and Merrick Salisbury lie, are always to be thanked.
Editorial assistance was generously given by Mari Black, the world champion fiddler, who is a world-class editor. Eleanor Goodman is an excellent editor and was a great help.
My grandfather, Lucius Albert Salisbury, first told me many of these stories. My late father, Lucius Albert Salisbury Jr., added more, and as a combat veteran of World War II, provided incomparable details and insight into war.
Ace Salisbury added much technological help and more patience with the author’s shortcomings. Barbara Salisbury was, and is, the center of all things.
Luke Salisbury was born in Rhinebeck, New York and grew up in Oyster Bay and Huntington, Long Island. He attended the Hun School of Princeton. In 1969 he graduated from New College in Sarasota, Florida, an experimental school that offered few rules and no grades. He graduated from Boston University’s Creative Writing Program in 1984. He taught at Bunker Hill Community College from 1984 to 2012.
Mr. Salisbury’s first novel, The Cleveland Indian, inspired by the first Native American to play major league baseball, was published in 1992. 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 books and magazines. His awards include Book of the Year (Online Review of Books & Current Affairs) and Best Historical Fiction 2006 (USA Book News), both for Hollywood & Sunset, his second novel.
He lives in Chelsea, Massachusetts with his wife, Barbara. Their son, Ace, is a filmmaker in Brooklyn.
Jacket design by Bryan Sears
Author photo Barbara Salisbury
Moreau Salisbury photo courtesy of Barbara and Luke Salisbury
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