For those under 40, the playwright Wendy Wasserstein is not well known, but biographer Julie Salamon says that, from "Sex and the City" to Facebook updates, she was way ahead of her time—and her unconventional life is a model for women.
Julie Salamon is the author of Hospital, about Maimonides Hospital, as well as the New York Times bestselling The Christmas Tree; the true-crime book Facing the Wind; the novel White Lies; the film classic The Devil's Candy; a family memoir The Net of Dreams; and Rambam's Ladder. Previously a reporter and culture writer for the New York Times and The Wall Street Journal, she has also written for The New Yorker, Vanity Fair, Vogue, and The New Republic. She lives in New York City.