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Born | Jack Richard Salamanca December 20, 1922 St. Petersburg, Florida, U.S. |
Died | October 30, 2013 Potomac, Maryland, U.S. | (aged 90)
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Jack Richard Salamanca (born December 20, 1922, in St. Petersburg, Florida - October 30, 2013, in Potomac, Maryland)[1] was an American writer and professor emeritus at the University of Maryland.[2] 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.[3]