Julie Salamon

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 ten books, for adults and children.

The daughter of Holocaust survivors, Lilly (born Rapaport) and Alexander Salamon, she was born in Cincinnati, Ohio, and raised with her sister Suzanne 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 law degree from New York University.

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 The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, Harper's Bazaar, and The New Republic. She has been an adjunct professor at NYU's Tisch School of the Arts and a lecturer at Columbia University. For her 2008 work Hospital, she was a Kaiser Media Fellow for 2006–07. She was inducted into the Ohio Women's Hall of Fame in September 2008, and was 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.

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