The Devil's Candy

Julie Salamon is the New York Times best-selling author of 13 books, including her 2011 biography of playwright Wendy Wasserstein, Wendy and the Lost Boys, and the Hollywood classic The Devil’s Candy. Writing about her 2019 book about international terrorism, An Innocent Bystander, Publishers Weekly called Salamon “one of today’s foremost chroniclers of American politics and culture.” Former reporter and film and television critic for The Wall Street Journal and The New York Times, Salamon is host of a monthly podcast interview series, AT LUNCH, sponsored by the American Jewish Historical Society. She grew up in a rural Appalachian town in Southern Ohio and lives in New York City, where she married her husband Bill Abrams and they raised their children Roxie and Eli. For twenty-five years she has been board chair of BRC, a New York City nonprofit that provides housing, health care and social services for people who are unsheltered.