This 2011 biography of Wendy Wasserstein, the Pulitzer Prize winning playwright who came to represent the Baby Boom generation, was a New York Times best seller.
On March 1, 2012, Wendy and the Lost Boys was a “Jeopardy” question!
5 #theatrebooks I love (could name dozens more, including @jenashtep’s books)
1) Act One by Moss Hart
2) Patti LuPone: A Memoir
3) Look, I Made A Hat & Finishing The Hat by Sondheim
4) Wendy & The Lost Boys by Julie Salamon
5) Lyrics On Several Occasions by Ira Gershwin https://t.co/bo7wiuTrBe— Lin-Manuel Miranda (@Lin_Manuel) May 20, 2020
“Lizzie [Moss] recommended it. It’s about Wendy Wasserstein’s life, but it doesn’t feel like a biography — you just want to know what happens next.”
Bryce Pinkham, co-star of “The Heidi Chronicles,” talking about what is in his library, April 4, 2015
“Indispensable”
Michael Schulman, The New Yorker, Feb. 23, 2015
“Do you love Great American Success Stories about Great American Storytellers? Read Julie Salamon’s extraordinary Wendy Wasserstein bio.”
Lena Dunham, tweeted Jan 30, 2013
“Excellent…in a sense, Salamon’s voice is like that of a Wasserstein character, a late-night girlfriend who tells you the truth, but confidentially, and sideways.”
Hilton Als, The New Yorker 9-05-2011
“Thorough, sympathetic and moving…”
Charles Isherwood, The New York Times “Intriguing” — People
“Shrewd, gripping…romping….more like a novel than a biography.”
Emma Brockes, The New York Times
“A book as entertaining and personable as its subject”
NPR
In “Wendy and the Lost Boys,” Julie Salamon’s shrewd, gripping biography, the gap between the public rendition of a live and how it was actually lived is shown at times to be startlingly wide…her fresh reporting (some 300 people were interviewed, and the book was written with cooperation from key menmbers of the Wasserstein family) gives the book a live, romping air.”
Emma Brockes, The New York Times