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Salom Rizk
Salom Rizk (a.k.a. Sam Risk, born 15 December 1908 in Ottoman Syria, died 22 October 1973 in Silver Spring, Maryland) was a Syrian-American author, best known for his 1943 immigrant autobiography, ''Syrian Yankee'', perhaps the best-known piece of Arab American literature in the middle part of the century. The book has been called "a classic of the immigrant biography genre",〔Tanyss Ludescher, "From Nostalgia to Critique: An Overview of Arab American Literature", ''MELUS'' 31.4 (2006): 93-114.〕 especially for the way Rizk's story portrays the American Dream〔Sacvan Bercovitch, Cyrus Patell, ''The Cambridge History of American Literature: Prose Writing, 1910-1950'', Cambridge University Press, 2002. p.522.〕 and the virtues of cultural assimilation〔Elmaz Abinader, ("Children of al-Mahjar: Arab American Literature Spans a Century" ), 2000; accessed 17 July 2010〕 at the expense of his home country, which he finds loathsome when he returns for a visit.〔Pauline Kaldas, Khaled Mattawa, "Introduction", ''Dinarzad's Children: An Anthology of Contemporary Arab American Fiction'', University of Arkansas Press, 2009. pp.xvi, xviii.〕 Rizk became well-known enough that Reader's Digest sponsored him on a lecture tour around the United States as "the quintessential American immigrant".〔Gregory Orfalea, ''The Arab Americans: A History'', Interlink Books, 2006. pp.50, 60, 69.〕 He also sponsored a drive for the Save the Children Federation, using advertisements in such magazines as ''Boys' Life'' to request families send their extra pencils, so that these could be donated to needy school-children around the world as a way of promoting freedom and democracy and fighting tyranny.〔e.g.,"Pencils Speak Democracy", in ''Boys' Life'' Dec 1953, p.67. (accessed via Google Book search, 17 July 2010)〕
==Youth and journey to the USA==
Rizk was born in Ottoman Syria (likely modern Lebanon) to an American Christian mother who died when he was young, leaving him in the care of an illiterate grandmother who did not tell him of his American citizenship, which he learns of only when he is twelve; it takes him five more years before he is able to obtain his passport.〔(Lecture brochure ), accessed 17 July 2010.〕 At the same time, he has been told "many wonderful, unbelievable things" about the United States by his teacher, who describes it as "a country like heaven...where everything is bigger and grander and more beautiful than it has ever been anywhere else in the world...where men do the deeds of giants and think the thoughts of God".〔Amir B. Marvasti, Karyn D. McKinney, ''Middle Eastern lives in America'', Rowman & Littlefield, 2004. p.5.〕 Rizk realizes, even in his imagination, that America was "everything that my present life was not",〔Werner Sollors, ''Ethnic Modernism'', Harvard University Press, 2008. pp.194–199.〕 especially given the horrors that befell Syria in World War I.〔 As soon as he was able, he left Syria for the United States, joining the roughly 100,000 Arab Christian immigrants who came to the States between 1880 and 1914.〔Michael B. Oren, ''Power, Faith, and Fantasy: America in the Middle East, 1776 to the Present'', W. W. Norton & Company, 2007. p.369.〕
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