At the age of seventeen he was admitted to Harvard to study journalism and was expelled after a single semester. Yearning to see the world and “fling himself into the dripping fangs of adventure” he joined the French Foreign Legion where he served honorably before losing a hand to an Arab in the Sudan. Accounts vary , but most agree he put it someplace it didn’t belong. He bounced around, writing for a number of newspapers as a foreign correspondent before publishing his first novel The Clockwork Woman in 1928, a startling tale of a lonely mad scientist who builds the perfect companion of springs and gears. A critical failure, the novel nevertheless sold out nine print runs, and launched LaSalle’s career as a fabulist. But his new success was tainted later that same year when his father (Earnst) and his mother (Helga) were killed in a blimp accident over the Scottish Highlands. LaSalle met the girl of his dreams. Seven times. After his seventh and final divorce in 1978, LaSalle vowed never to marry again, and was arrested four times over the next decade for soliciting prostitutes.
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