Sarah Weinman

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]

Sarah Weinman
Sarah Weinman in 2018
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

• —— (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

• —— (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

• —— (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.