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Julie Salamon (born July 10, 1953) is an American author and journalist, who has been a film and television critic for theWall Street Journal and theNew York Times. She is the author of thirteen books, for adults and children. In 2021, she was co-host and writer of Season Two of TCM'sThe Plot Thickens, based on her bookThe 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.

The daughter ofHolocaust survivors, Lilly (born Rapaport) and Alexander Salamon, she was born inCincinnati,Ohio, and raised with her sister inSeaman, a rural village located inAdams County, Ohio, where her father was the town doctor. After graduating fromTufts University inBoston, Salamon moved toNew York City, where she received herJ.D. degree^[1] fromNew York University.

While in law school, Salamon was a summer intern at thePittsburgh Press, and then atThe 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 theJournal'sfilm critic in 1983, a job she held for 11 years. In 2000, she became atelevision critic and reporter forThe New York Times, where she stayed until 2005.

Salamon's journalism has also appeared inThe New Yorker,Vanity Fair,Vogue,Harper's Bazaar, andThe New Republic. She has been an adjunct professor atNYU'sTisch School of the Arts and a lecturer atColumbia University. For her 2008 workHospital, she was a Kaiser Media Fellow for 2006–07. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in September 2008,^[2] and has been a multiple recipient of the Ohioana Library Award. In the summer of 2010, she was a writing fellow at theMacDowell Colony inPeterborough, New Hampshire,^[3] where she completedWendy and the Lost Boys.

Salamon has written thirteen 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 includeThe Net of Dreams (1996),Facing the Wind (2001), andRambam's Ladder (2003).The Devil's Candy (1991) is considered aHollywood classic aboutfilmmaking gone awry by film critics and journalists.^[4][5] Hernovella,The Christmas Tree (1996), with illustrations by Jill Weber, was aNew York Times best-seller and has been translated into eight languages.Wendy and the Lost Boys, a biography ofPulitzer Prize-winning playwrightWendy Wasserstein, was published by The Penguin Press on August 22, 2011, and became aNew York Times best-seller. With illustrator Jill Weber, she has written two books for middle-grade children,Mutts Promise andCat in the City, both published by Dial and "One More Story, Tata" (2024 from Astra Publishing.

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, includingNational Public Radio,Good Morning America, andThe Today Show. She has lectured at universities and elementary schools as well as hospitals and medical schools nationwide, includingCedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles, Massachusetts General Cancer Center in Boston, and Narrative Medicine Rounds atColumbia University Medical Center.

Salamon was for several years a mentor atGirls 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

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

• Julie Salamon official website
• Julie Salamon's articles forThe New York Times
• "Julie Salamon: Growing Up in Ohio in the Shadow of the Holocaust",New York Times, May 22, 1996
• A film clip"The Open Mind - A Critical Mass (1988)" is available for viewing at theInternet Archive

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