J.R. Salamanca

Born

December 10, 1922 · St. Petersburg, Florida, USA

Died

October 30, 2013

• Writer

Jack Richard Salamanca was a US writer and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland. His first novel, The Lost Country (1958), was made into Wild in the Country, a 1961 film starring Elvis Presley; his second, Lilith, was filmed as Lilith in 1964, starring Warren Beatty.