Sarah Weinman | |
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| 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]
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]
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]
