Julie Salamon is an American journalist, critic and author. Daughter of Holocaust survivors, Alexander and Lilly Salamon, Julie 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, 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 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 until 2005. Salamon has written nine books in many genres; in September 2014, "Cat in the City," a novel for young readers illustrated by Jill Weber, was published by Dial Press for Young Readers. Her other books include Facing the Wind, The Net of Dreams, and Rambam?s Ladder. 

July 10th, 1953 in (Age 71)