Jim Salmon

Jim Salmon is an American author, whose published works include Rime of the Ancient Underwriter.
Early Life
Jim Salmon was born in Lima, Peru, where his father was stationed as a civil engineer for the United States government during World War II. Throughout his childhood he lived in New York, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, and Bogota, Columbia. He graduated from Carson Long Institute, a private military high school in New Bloomfield, Pennsylvania in 1961. He served in the United States Army’s 82nd Airborne Division for three years. He graduated from Central Connecticut State University with a degree in Social Sciences in 1968. He began his 31 year career in insurance, working for companies in Connecticut, Massachusetts, and New Jersey.
Writing Career
Jim left his insurance job in 2000 to follow in the footstep of his seafaring ancestors. Jim’s relatives commanded Navy ships in the Revolutionary and Civil wars. He has ancestral ties to crew members of the Whaleship, Essex, the ship that inspired Herman Melville’s Moby Dick. His father sailed on the Arctic schooner Bowdoin during the 1920s. In October of 2000, Jim boarded the three-masted, square-rigged barque Picton Castle as part of a crew that set off on a course to circumnavigate the globe. After nineteen months at sea, the subject of his critically acclaimed book Rime of the Ancient Underwriter, Jim returned to the United States and earned a Merchant Marine 100 Ton License.
In the summers of 2009 and 2010, Jim worked as a part-time schooner captain for Portland Schooner Company in Portland, Maine. He serves on the boards of several non-profit organizations, including Northern Human Services, the Conway Lake Conservation Association, and the Dolloff Cove Association. Jim lives with his wife in Conway, New Hampshire. They have three children and seven grandchildren.
Published Works
* Rime of the Ancient Underwriter (Hobblebush Books)
* The Tempest (Lighthouse Publishing Ltd.)
* The Last Recorded Voyage of the Damn Foole (Messing About in Boats)

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