Julie Salamon is the author of Hospital, about the inner workings of a big city hospital; the New York Times bestseller The Christmas Tree; the true crime book Facing the Wind; the novel White Lies; The Devil’s Candy, a family memoir; The Net of Dreams; and Ramdam’s Ladder. Previously a reporter and critic with the Wall Street Journal and the New York Times, she has also written for the New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and the New Republic.