Frank Salvatore emigrated to the United States in 1947 from his native Italy where he had been attending high school in Campobasso. He continued his studies in Youngstown, Ohio and went on to graduate from Youngstown State University with a B.A. degree in Spanish. In addition to mastering English, he became proficient in Spanish, attending the Escuela de Verano in Mexico and eventually receiving an M.A. degree in Spanish from the prestigious Middlebury College, in Middlebury, Vermont.

He has spent most of his teaching career in Pennsylvania. For twenty six years, he was a teacher of foreign languages at Haverford High School and for twelve years an adjunct Professor of Italian at Villanova University and Saint Joseph University.