Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority from Brooklyn, New York.[1] She has most recently written The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World about the kidnapping and captivity of 11-year-old Florence Sally Horner by a serial child molester, a crime believed to have inspired Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita.[2][3][4] The book received mostly positive reviews[5] from NPR,[6] The Los Angeles Times,[7] The Washington Post,[8] and The Boston Globe.[9]

Sarah Weinman
Occupation	News editor, publishers marketplace
Notable works	Women Crime Writers Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives

Early life and education

Weinman is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where she graduated from Nepean High School.[10] She later graduated from McGill University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.[11]

Professional career

Weinman edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.[12] Weinman also edited the anthology Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives, called "simply one of the most significant anthologies of crime fiction, ever." by the Los Angeles Review of Books.[13] Her essays have been featured in Slate, The New York Times, Hazlitt Magazine and The New Republic. Weinman has published a weekly newsletter about crime fiction called The Crime Lady since January 2015.[14]

Works

Non-fiction

• Weinman, Sarah (September 11, 2018). The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World. Ecco (US). ISBN 978-0-06-266192-0.
• Weinman, Sarah (February 22, 2022). Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free. Ecco (US). ISBN 978-0-06-289976-7.

Collections

• Weinman, Sarah (September 1, 2015). Women Crime Writers (Hardcover) Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s: A Library of America Boxed Set. Library of America. p. 1512. ISBN 9781598534511. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah (August 27, 2013). Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. Penguin Books. p. 356. ISBN 9780143122548. Retrieved January 28, 2018.

Essays

• Weinman, Sarah (July 2012). "The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston". Observer. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah (January 10, 2014). "The Murderer and the Manuscript". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah (November 2014). "The Real Lolita". Hazlitt Magazine. Penguin Random House. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah. "The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel". The New Republic. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah (March 2016). "Massacre at Ninth and Main". Buzzfeed. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
• Weinman, Sarah (October 2017). "The True Crime Story Behind a 1970 Cult Feminist Film Classic". Topic. First Look Media. Retrieved January 28, 2018.

References

External links

• Official website
• Weinman at "Publisher's Marketplace", Publishers Weekly
• Appearances on C-SPAN