Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman | |
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 Sarah Weinman in 2018 | |
| Occupation | News editor, Publishers Marketplace |
| Notable works | Women Crime Writers Troubled Daughters Twisted Wives |
Sarah Weinman is a Canadian 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
[edit]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
[edit]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
[edit]Non-fiction
[edit]- —— (2018). The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World. Ecco (US). ISBN 9780062661920. [15][16][17][18]
- —— (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 9780062899767. [19][20]
- —— (2025). Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades-Long Struggle to Make Spousal Rape a Crime. Ecco (US). ISBN 9780063279889. [21][22]
Collections
[edit]- —— (2013). Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. Penguin Books. p. 356. ISBN 9780143122548.
- —— (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.
Essays
[edit]- —— (2012). "The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston". Observer. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- —— (2014). "The Murderer and the Manuscript". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- —— (2014). "The Real Lolita". Hazlitt Magazine. Penguin Random House. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- ——. "The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel". The New Republic. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- —— (2016). "Massacre at Ninth and Main". Buzzfeed. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
- —— (2017). "The True Crime Story Behind a 1970 Cult Feminist Film Classic". Topic. First Look Media. Retrieved January 28, 2018.
References
[edit]- ^ 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.
- ^ Waldman, Katy (September 17, 2018). "The Salacious Non-Mystery of "The Real Lolita"". The New Yorker. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ Smith, PD (October 11, 2018). "The Real Lolita by Sarah Weinman review – the kidnapping of Sally Horner". The Guardian. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ "The True Story of the Real Lolita". Electric Literature. September 12, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ "The forgotten real-life story behind Lolita". CBC. September 7, 2018. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ Dykstra, Katherine (February 22, 2022). "How a Death-Row Inmate's Embrace of Conservatism Led to His Release". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ Weinman, Sarah (April 27, 2022). "How William F. Buckley Learned That Evil Is Real – Mark Pulliam". Law & Liberty. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ Snyder, Rachel Louise (November 11, 2025). "Book Review: 'Without Consent,' by Sarah Weinman". The New York Times. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
- ^ "Without Consent: A Landmark Trial and the Decades Long Struggle to Make Marital Rape a Crime by Sarah Weinman". PublishersWeekly.com. Retrieved December 21, 2025.
External links
[edit]- Official website
- Weinman at "Publisher's Marketplace", Publishers Weekly
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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- Living people
- Writers from Ottawa
- Journalists from Ottawa
- 21st-century American non-fiction writers
- 21st-century American women writers
- 21st-century Canadian non-fiction writers
- 21st-century Canadian women writers
- McGill University alumni
- American women non-fiction writers
- Canadian women non-fiction writers
- John Jay College of Criminal Justice alumni
- Jewish Canadian non-fiction writers