Julie Salamon

Who is Julie Salamon?

Julie Salamon is an American journalist, critic and author.

She was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised in Seaman, a rural village located in Adams County, Ohio, where her father was the town doctor. After graduating from Tufts University, she moved to New York City, where she received her law degree from New York University. While in law school, she was a summer intern at the Pittsburgh Press and then the Wall Street Journal, where she was hired as a reporter in the New York bureau upon graduation from NYU. Salamon became the Journal's film critic in 1983, a job she held for 11 years. In 2000, she became the television critic for the New York Times, and then a writer in the arts section until 2005.

Salamon has written a series of award-winning books, including Facing the Wind, The Net of Dreams, and Rambam’s Ladder. The Devil’s Candy is considered a Hollywood classic about filmmaking gone awry, and her novella, The Christmas Tree, was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into eight languages. Wendy and the Lost Boys, a biography of Pulitzer-prize winning playwright Wendy Wasserstein, was published by The Penguin Press on August 22, 2011 and became a New York Times bestseller. She is working on an illustrated novel for young readers with artist Jill Weber, to be published by Penguin's Dial Press for Young Readers in 2014. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar, and The New Republic. She has been an adjunct professor at NYU’s Tisch School of the Arts and a lecturer at Columbia University. For her 2008 work Hospital she was chosen to be a Kaiser Media Fellow for 2006-2007. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in September 2008, and a recipient of the Ohioana Library Award. In the summer of 2010, she was a writing fellow at the MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire., where she completed Wendy and the Lost Boys.