Q&A With Judy Batalion

Book Notions
April 7, 2026

New York Times Bestselling Author, Judy Batalion is my next guest for this Q&A for Book Notions. Judy is the author of the nonfiction book The Light of Days, her memoir White Walls & her debut historical fiction novel, The Last Woman of Warsaw is available today on April 7th wherever you get your books! Judy Batalion has also written essays and articles for The New York Times, the Washington Post, Vogue, the Forward, Salon, the Jerusalem Post and many other publications.

Q: Judy, would you like to give a brief description of each of your books starting off with The Last Woman of Warsaw? 

A: The Last Woman of Warsaw is the tale of unlikely and powerful friendship between two very different young Jewish women – a fashion photographer and a political activist – and it’s set in dazzling, sophisticated and fashionable Warsaw in 1938. We don’t really think of pre-war Warsaw as being a cultural hub, but it was the locus of theater, vaudeville, comedy, fashion – there were 130 Jewish newspapers published there at the time. I wanted to explore women’s lives in this exciting world that was also on the brink of war.