Sarah Weinman

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 Lolita.[2][3][4]

Sarah Weinman
OccupationNews editor, publishers marketplace
Notable worksWomen Crime Writers
Troubled Daughters
Twisted Wives

Early life and education

Weinman is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, where she graduated from Nepean High School.[5] She graduated from McGill University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.[6]

Professional career

Weinman edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.[7] and 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.[8] Her essays have been featured in Slate, the New York Times, Hazlitt Magazine and the New Republic. She has published a weekly newsletter about crime fiction called The Crime Lady since January 2015.[9]

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 9780062661920.

Collections

Essays

References
  1. Gallagher, Cullen. "Women in Crime: An Interview with Sarah Weinman". Paris Review. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  2. "The forgotten real-life story behind Lolita". The Sunday Edition. CBC Radio. September 9, 2018. Retrieved September 9, 2019.
  3. McAlpin, Heller (September 11, 2018). "'The Real Lolita' Investigates The True Crime Story Of Sally Horner". NPR.
  4. Waldman, Katy (September 17, 2018). "The Salacious Non-Mystery of "The Real Lolita"". The New Yorker.
  5. https://artsfile.ca/the-real-lolita/
  6. https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/244394/sarah-weinman
  7. "Women Crime Writers". The Library of America. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  8. Cha, Steph. "Dormant Superheroines: Steph Cha interviews Sarah Weinman". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
  9. "The Crime Lady". Tiny Letter. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
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