Julie Salamon

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Julia Salamon
Born (1953-07-10) July 10, 1953 (age 70)
Cincinnati, Ohio, U.S.
Occupation
  • Author
  • journalist
NationalityAmerican
EducationTufts University
New York University (JD)
Children2
Website
juliesalamon.com

Julie Salamon (born July 10, 1953) is an American author and journalist, who has been a film and television critic for the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times. She is the author of twelve books, for adults and children. In 2021, she was co-host and writer of Season Two of TCM's The Plot Thickens, based on her book The Devil's Candy. Since 1999 she has been board chair of BRC, a NYC non-profit that provides housing, medical care, job training and social services to New Yorkers who have become homeless.

Early life

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Lilly (born Rapaport) and Alexander Salamon, she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised with her sister in Seaman, a rural village located in Adams County, Ohio, where her father was the town doctor. After graduating from Tufts University in Boston, Salamon moved to New York City, where she received her J.D. degree [1] from New York University.

Career

Journalism

While in law school, Salamon was a summer intern at the

Pittsburgh Press, and then at The Wall Street Journal, where she was hired as a reporter in the New York bureau (covering commodities and then banking) upon graduation from NYU. Salamon became the Journal's film critic in 1983, a job she held for 11 years. In 2000, she became a television critic and reporter for The New York Times
, where she stayed until 2005.

Salamon's journalism has also appeared in

MacDowell Colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire,[3]
where she completed Wendy and the Lost Boys.

Books

Salamon has written twelve books in several genres; in June 2021, Unlikely Friends, a memoir of her Appalachian childhood, was published by Audible as an Audible Original. In 2019, her account of the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro, An Innocent Bystander, was published by Little, Brown. Her other books for adults include The Net of Dreams (1996), Facing the Wind (2001), and Rambam's Ladder (2003). The Devil's Candy (1991) is considered a Hollywood classic about filmmaking gone awry by film critics and journalists.[4][5] Her novella, The Christmas Tree (1996), with illustrations by Jill Weber, 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 best-seller. With illustrator Jill Weber, she has written two books for middle-grade children, Mutts Promise and Cat in the City, both published by Dial.

Public speaking and appearances

She hosts AT LUNCH a monthly interview program with prominent leaders in the world of culture, literature and politics. She has been interviewed on national and local television and radio programs, including

Columbia University Medical Center
.

Salamon was for several years a mentor at Girls Write Now, a writing and mentoring program for New York City public high school girls, and--in addition to BRC-- is a board member of the American Jewish Historical Society

Personal life

Salamon is married with two adult children, and lives in downtown Manhattan.

References

  1. ^ Salamon, Julie (2004-02-04). "Julie Salamon, Author, 'Rambam's Ladder: A Meditation on Generosity and Why It Is Necessary to Give'". Philanthropy News Digest (Interview). Interviewed by Rob Johnston. Candid.
  2. ^ "Ohio Women's Hall of Fame 2008". Archived from the original on 2010-12-27. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  3. ^ "The MacDowell Colony". Archived from the original on 2010-10-07. Retrieved 2010-09-30.
  4. ISBN 9780813188751
    .
  5. ^ Ansen, David (November 3, 1991). "De Palma's Misfortune". Newsweek. Retrieved 2022-08-03. "Otherwise 'The Devil's Candy' is as close to a definitive portrait of the madness of big-time moviemaking as we're likely to get."

External links

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