Sarah Weinman

Sarah Weinman is a Canadian journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority. 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. The book received reviews from NPR, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe.

Early life and education

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

Professional career

Weinman edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s. 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. 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.

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