FORA.tv Speaker - Julie Salamon

Julie 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 film-making gone awry, and her novella The Christmas Tree (1996) was a New York Times best-seller and has been translated into eight languages. She was a reporter and the film critic for The Wall Street Journal for many years, and then a culture writer on the staff of the New York Times. 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 Hospital she was chosen to be a Kaiser Media Fellow for 2006-2007.