Julie Salamon
Encyclopedia
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 (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 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 (2001), The Net of Dreams (1996), and Rambam’s Ladder (2003). The Devil’s Candy (1991) is considered a Hollywood
classic about filmmaking
gone awry, and her novella
, The Christmas Tree, (1996) 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. 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
. 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.
For many years Salamon has been 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. Salamon is married to Bill Abrams, who is executive director of TrickleUp, an organization aimed at breaking the cycle of extreme poverty. New York City is home; Salamon and Abrams live in downtown Manhattan with their two children, Roxie and Eli Salamon-Abrams, their dog Maggie and Kuro the cat.
to California
, Texas
to Michigan
. She has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences, often to audiences of several thousand people. A sampling of these organizations: the Ivy League MIT and Stanford Conference for Corporate and Foundation Relation fundraisers, the national convention of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Metro Health Foundation in Cleveland, Winston-Salem Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, dozens of UJA groups as well as churches, synagogues, libraries, universities and lower schools.
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 (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 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 (2001), The Net of Dreams (1996), and Rambam’s Ladder (2003). The Devil’s Candy (1991) is considered a Hollywood
Cinema of the United States
The cinema of the United States, also known as Hollywood, has had a profound effect on cinema across the world since the early 20th century. Its history is sometimes separated into four main periods: the silent film era, classical Hollywood cinema, New Hollywood, and the contemporary period...
classic about filmmaking
Filmmaking
Filmmaking is the process of making a film, from an initial story, idea, or commission, through scriptwriting, casting, shooting, directing, editing, and screening the finished product before an audience that may result in a theatrical release or television program...
gone awry, and her novella
Novella
A novella is a written, fictional, prose narrative usually longer than a novelette but shorter than a novel. The Science Fiction and Fantasy Writers of America Nebula Awards for science fiction define the novella as having a word count between 17,500 and 40,000...
, The Christmas Tree, (1996) 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. Her journalism has appeared in The New Yorker
The New Yorker
The New Yorker is an American magazine of reportage, commentary, criticism, essays, fiction, satire, cartoons and poetry published by Condé Nast...
, Vanity Fair
Vanity Fair (magazine)
Vanity Fair is a magazine of pop culture, fashion, and current affairs published by Condé Nast. The present Vanity Fair has been published since 1983 and there have been editions for four European countries as well as the U.S. edition. This revived the title which had ceased publication in 1935...
, Vogue
Vogue (magazine)
Vogue is a fashion and lifestyle magazine that is published monthly in 18 national and one regional edition by Condé Nast.-History:In 1892 Arthur Turnure founded Vogue as a weekly publication in the United States. When he died in 1909, Condé Montrose Nast picked up the magazine and slowly began...
, Bazaar, and The New Republic
The New Republic
The magazine has also published two articles concerning income inequality, largely criticizing conservative economists for their attempts to deny the existence or negative effect increasing income inequality is having on the United States...
. She has been an adjunct professor at NYU
New York University
New York University is a private, nonsectarian research university based in New York City. NYU's main campus is situated in the Greenwich Village section of Manhattan...
’s Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts
Tisch School of the Arts is one of the 15 schools that make up New York 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
MacDowell Colony
The MacDowell Colony is an art colony in Peterborough, New Hampshire, U.S.A., founded in 1907 by Marian MacDowell, pianist and wife of composer Edward MacDowell. She established the institution and its endowment chiefly with donated funds...
in Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough, New Hampshire
Peterborough is a town in Hillsborough County, New Hampshire, United States. The population was 6,284 at the 2010 census. Home to the MacDowell Art Colony, the town is a popular tourist destination....
., where she completed Wendy and the Lost Boys.
For many years Salamon has been chair of the Brc, a social services organization in New York City
New York City
New York is the most populous city in the United States and the center of the New York Metropolitan Area, one of the most populous metropolitan areas in the world. New York exerts a significant impact upon global commerce, finance, media, art, fashion, research, technology, education, and...
that provides care for people who are homeless and may suffer from addiction or mental disease. Salamon is married to Bill Abrams, who is executive director of TrickleUp, an organization aimed at breaking the cycle of extreme poverty. New York City is home; Salamon and Abrams live in downtown Manhattan with their two children, Roxie and Eli Salamon-Abrams, their dog Maggie and Kuro the cat.
Public speaking and appearances
She has spoken to large and small philanthropic and community organizations in at least 20 states across the country, from MaineMaine
Maine is a state in the New England region of the northeastern United States, bordered by the Atlantic Ocean to the east and south, New Hampshire to the west, and the Canadian provinces of Quebec to the northwest and New Brunswick to the northeast. Maine is both the northernmost and easternmost...
to California
California
California is a state located on the West Coast of the United States. It is by far the most populous U.S. state, and the third-largest by land area...
, Texas
Texas
Texas is the second largest U.S. state by both area and population, and the largest state by area in the contiguous United States.The name, based on the Caddo word "Tejas" meaning "friends" or "allies", was applied by the Spanish to the Caddo themselves and to the region of their settlement in...
to Michigan
Michigan
Michigan is a U.S. state located in the Great Lakes Region of the United States of America. The name Michigan is the French form of the Ojibwa word mishigamaa, meaning "large water" or "large lake"....
. She has been the keynote speaker for numerous conferences, often to audiences of several thousand people. A sampling of these organizations: the Ivy League MIT and Stanford Conference for Corporate and Foundation Relation fundraisers, the national convention of Boys and Girls Clubs of America, the Metro Health Foundation in Cleveland, Winston-Salem Foundation, Marin Community Foundation, dozens of UJA groups as well as churches, synagogues, libraries, universities and lower schools.
External links
- Julie Salamon official website
- Julie Salamon's articles for The New York TimesThe New York TimesThe New York Times is an American daily newspaper founded and continuously published in New York City since 1851. The New York Times has won 106 Pulitzer Prizes, the most of any news organization...
- "Julie Salamon: Growing Up in Ohio in the Shadow of the Holocaust", New York Times, May 22, 1996
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