Julie Salamon

Julie Salamon is the author of six books, including The Devil’s Candy, considered a Hollywood classic about filmmaking gone awry, and The Christmas Tree, a New York Times bestseller. Her other books are the nonfiction, true crime book Facing the Wind, the novel White Lies, a family memoir, The Net of Dreams, and Rambam’s Ladder for which she won the 2005 Ohioana book award. Salamon was a culture writer for The New York Times and a critic and reporter for The Wall Street Journal. In 2006–2007 she was a Kaiser Media Fellow. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Bazaar, and The New Republic.

Salamon is a graduate of Tufts University and New York University School of Law. She is chair of the BRC, a social services organization in New York City that provides care for people who are homeless and may suffer from addiction or mental disease. In 2008 she was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame. Born in Cincinnati and raised in Seaman, Ohio, a rural town of 800, she lives in downtown Manhattan with her husband and two children, two cats and a puppy.