mainland, on the islands of Hawaii. Salisbury's ancestors were missionaries who went to the big island of Hawaii in the early nineteenth century. Salisbury's father, a young ensign in the U.S. Navy, was at Pearl Harbor during the Japanese attack on December 7, 1941; although he survived that ordeal, he would die when he was shot down with his fighter plane on April 11, 1945--his son's first birthday.
Island Upbringing Features Prominently in Fiction
Given his family history, it is not surprising that Salisbury spent little time in Pennsylvania; he and his mother made their home in the Hawaiian islands. In turn, he has set his books on the islands as he remembers them from his childhood. "I can feel, even now, the rocking of my stepfather's deep-sea charter fishing boat, the hot sun on my shoulders, salt itching under my T-shirt after swimming," Salisbury once told Something About the Author (SATA). "I can hear the constant rumble of waves and smell the sweet aroma of steaks cooking at the hotels in the village of Kailua-Kona.
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