Laurie Sandell

On October 7, 2018, The New York Times reported she married Jonathan Mostow. The two met through JDate in 2014, after she began dating again, after the birth of her son. He was the first man she dated after becoming a mother, and she has written Mostow is a wonderful father to her son and his own four children.

Sandell's book on the Madoff family was credited as a source for the 2017 movie Wizard of Lies.

In 2013 Sandell wrote an essay, for The New York Times, entitled "How to Break Up With A 2-Year-Old." In the essay she described first her surprise at falling in love with the toddler of a man she was dating, and then her feeling of loss as she realized how much she would miss that child, as her relationship with her father deteriorated. She described how meeting that girl triggered her to bear a child through artificial insemination, or to adopt a child, if that failed. Busy Philipps read her essay aloud for a series broadcast on WBUR in 2018.

Deadline magazine reported that Zambry films acquired the movie rights to The Impostor's Daughter, in December 2012.

Laurie Sandell (born 1971) is an American author. She had been a working journalist for over a decade before she published the first of her two books.