Judy L. Mandel

Judy L. Mandel is a former reporter and marketing executive who writes memoir and nonfiction. Her first book, Replacement Child, is a New York Times bestseller about her family's survival of a 1952 plane crash that killed her older sister. Her later book White Flag, published by Legacy Book Press, explores transgenerational trauma, addiction, and epigenetics through the story of her niece Cheryl. She holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Stony Brook University.