Julie Satow

Julie Satow is the author of The New York Times bestseller, When Women Ran Fifth Avenue: Glamour and Power at the Dawn of American Fashion, longlisted for the Andrew Carnegie Medal for Excellence in Nonfiction, and named Best Book of 2024 by Amazon, the Financial Times, Cosmopolitan, Smithsonian, the New York Post, and Vogue. Her first book, The Plaza: The Secret Life of America’s Most Famous Hotel was a New York Times Editors’ Choice and an NPR Favorite Book of the Year. 

An award-winning journalist, Julie has written for The New York Times, National Public Radio, The Wall Street Journal, and elsewhere. A native New Yorker, she graduated from Columbia College and holds a master’s degree from Columbia University’s School of International and Public Affairs. She lives in New York City with her husband and two children.