Laurie Sandell is an American author. She had been a working journalist for over a decade before she published the first of her two books. Her first book is a graphic memoir entitled "", that describes how, as she grew older, she realized her father was a fabulist, and stories she had taken at face value simply weren't credible. Deadline magazine reported that acquired the movie rights to The Impostor's Daughter, in December 2012. Sandell's book on the Madoff family was credited as a source for the 2017 movie Wizard of Lies.