Julie Salamon

Julie Salamon is the author of 12 books, whose subjects have ranged across show business, philanthropy, the Holocaust, the insanity defense, and modern medical care. Her books have received wide critical and popular attention, among them the international best seller The Devil’s Candy, considered a Hollywood classic, and Wendy and the Lost Boys, the New York Times best-seller biography of playwright Wendy Wasserstein. Several of the books have been optioned for screenplays; The Christmas Tree, translated into a dozen languages, became an ABC-TV movie, directed by Sally Fields and starring Julie Harris. Her latest book, An Innocent Bystander, published in June, 2019 by Little, Brown, explores the riveting story behind a shocking act of international terrorism. She has just completed “Unlikely Friends,” a memoir for Audible Original, released on Audible June, 2021 and Season Two of TCM's The Plot Thickens, a podcast series about the movies and the people who make them.

She worked at The Wall Street Journal for sixteen years, first as a commodities and banking reporter before spending eleven years as the paper’s film critic. Later she became a staff journalist at The New York Times, where she was a TV critic and arts reporter.

Born and raised in Seaman, Ohio, a rural town in Appalachia, Salamon has spent her adult life in lower Manhattan, together with her husband Bill Abrams and their children Roxie and Eli. She is board chair of BRC, a leading non-profit organization in New York City that provides housing and treatment services to thousands of homeless adults and recently joined the board of the American Jewish Historical Society. She has a BA from Tufts University and JD from New York University School of Law.