Julie Salamon, Author . Workman $18.95 (192p) ISBN 978-0-7611-2809-0
Rambam (also known as Maimonides) was a 12th-century Jewish scholar and physician to the Egyptian sultan. Among his influential writings on Jewish law is an eight-step program on giving to the poor. Salamon (Facing the Wind) provides a thoughtful...
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Julie Salamon, Author . Penguin Press $25.95 (363p) ISBN 978-1-59420-171-4
In this remarkable portrait of the doctors and administrators at Brooklyn’s Maimonides Medical Center, bestselling author Salamon (The Devil’s Candy
; The Christmas Tree
) illustrates the complex machine that is the modern hospital,...
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Julie Salamon, Author Delta $19 (460p) ISBN 978-0-385-30824-3
Salamon chronicles the making of the film version of The Bonfire of the Vanities , one of Hollywood's all-time biggest flops. Photos. (Nov.)
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Julie Salamon, Author Lawrence Hill Books $16.95 (259p) ISBN 978-0-940595-08-8
Jamaica Just, the main character in this first novel by the movie critic for the Wall Street Journal, is a young feature writer for the fictional New York Observer and is married to wholesome, affectionate Sammy. Named for the part of Queens, N.Y.,...
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Julie Salamon, Author Houghton Mifflin Harcourt (HMH) $24.95 (434p) ISBN 978-0-395-56996-2
Wall Street Journal film critic Salamon systematically and incisively lays out the process that conceived of Bonfire as a socially relevant epic, then turned it into a successor to Heaven's Gate. Moving from pre- to post-production, she charts the...
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Julie Salamon, Author Random House (NY) $25 (0p) ISBN 978-0-679-43121-3
The author's father, Alexander (Sanyi) Salamon, a Carpathian Czech doctor, was incarcerated in Dachau and survived, but he lost his first wife and their small daughter in the Holocaust. In 1946, Alexander married the author's mother, Lilly (Szimi),...
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Julie Salamon, Author Random House (NY) $24.95 (320p) ISBN 978-0-375-50022-0
This true-crime story reaches beyond the relatively narrow focus of the genre to ask painful and provocative questions about guilt and forgiveness. In 1978, Bob Rowe, an out-of-work Brooklyn lawyer, killed his two sons, his daughter and wife by...
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Julie Salamon. Penguin Press, $29.95 (480p) ISBN 978-1-59420-298-8
Salamon (Hospital) brings full circle the life of Wendy Wasserstein (1950–2006) in this insightful biography of the Pulitzer- and Tony-winning playwright. Despite the autobiographical nature of her work, Wasserstein, as Salamon underscores, was a...
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Julie Salamon, illus. by Jill Weber. Dial, $16.99 (208p) ISBN 978-0-8037-4056-3
Adult author Salamon’s (Wendy and the Lost Boys) first novel for children introduces two beguiling characters. There’s the eponymous cat—a self-possessed, fluffy white stray who arrives in New York City bedraggled but not defeated, is dubbed Pretty...
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Julie Salamon, illus. by Jill Weber. Dial, $16.99 (256p) ISBN 978-0-525-42778-0
Salamon and Weber trade the feline focus and urban setting of Cat in the City for an endearing tale of a mother dog and her good-natured puppies, set on a farm cozily evoked in the artist’s spot illustrations. Salamon’s uplifting story begins when a
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Julie Salamon, Author, J. Weber, Author, Jill Weber, Illustrator Random House Inc $12.95 (128p) ISBN 978-0-679-45253-9
Trying not to behave like Scrooge may be a book critic's most difficult task this Christmas season. This thin holiday fable is based on a true incident, but it is saturated with sentimentality. Narrated by the unnamed, curmudgeonly chief gardener of
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Julie Salamon. Little, Brown, $28 (368p) ISBN 978-0-316-43310-5
Salamon (Wendy and the Lost Boys) set out to write about the daughters of Leon Klinghoffer, the American tourist murdered during the 1985 hijacking of the Achille Lauro cruise ship. But her research led to her to produce a much broader book...
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