Sarah Weinman

American journalist and crime fiction author

Sarah Weinman

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

Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority.^[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]

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

^ Gallagher, Cullen. "Women in Crime: An Interview with Sarah Weinman". Paris Review. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ "The forgotten real-life story behind Lolita". The Sunday Edition. CBC Radio. September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
^ McAlpin, Heller (September 11, 2018). "'The Real Lolita' Investigates The True Crime Story Of Sally Horner". NPR.
^ Waldman, Katy (September 17, 2018). "The Salacious Non-Mystery of "The Real Lolita"". The New Yorker.
^ "Book Marks reviews of The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel That Scandalized the World by Sarah Weinman". Book Marks. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ McAlpin, Heller (September 11, 2018). "'The Real Lolita' Investigates The True Crime Story Of Sally Horner". NPR.org. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ Hand, Elizabeth (September 7, 2018). "The case that partly inspired 'Lolita' — despite what Nabokov said". Los Angeles Times. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ Corrigan, Maureen (September 7, 2018). "Was 'Lolita' inspired by a true crime? A new book offers tantalizing evidence it was". The Washington Post. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ Brown, Lillian (September 24, 2018). "The real 'Lolita' gets her due". The Boston Globe. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ Robb, Peter (September 18, 2018). "Ottawa's Sarah Weinman tells the story of The Real Lolita". ARTSFILE. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ "Sarah Weinman | Penguin Random House". PenguinRandomhouse.com. Retrieved March 15, 2021.
^ "Women Crime Writers". The Library of America. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ Cha, Steph. "Dormant Superheroines: Steph Cha interviews Sarah Weinman". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
^ "The Crime Lady". Tiny Letter. Retrieved January 28, 2018.