Sarah Weinman


Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority from Brooklyn, New York. 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.
Prior to that she edited edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s. 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. 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.

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