Sarah Weinman
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 from Brooklyn, New York.[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 Lolita.[2][3][4]
Early life and education
Weinman is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, where she graduated from Nepean High School.[5] She graduated from McGill University.[6]
Professional career
Weinman edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.[7] 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.[8] 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.[9]
Works
Non-fiction
- Weinman, Sarah (September 11, 2018). The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World. Ecco (US). ISBN 9780062661920.
Collections
- Weinman, Sarah (September 1, 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. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah (August 27, 2013). Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. Penguin Books. p. 356. ISBN 9780143122548. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
Essays
- Weinman, Sarah (July 2012). "The Mysterious Disappearance of Peter Winston". Observer. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah (January 10, 2014). "The Murderer and the Manuscript". New York Times Magazine. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah (November 2014). "The Real Lolita". Hazlitt Magazine. Penguin Random House. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah. "The Case of the Disappearing Black Detective Novel". The New Republic. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah (March 2016). "Massacre at Ninth and Main". Buzzfeed. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- Weinman, Sarah (October 2017). "The True Crime Story Behind a 1970 Cult Feminist Film Classic". Topic. First Look Media. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
References
- ^ Gallagher, Cullen. "Women in Crime: An Interview with Sarah Weinman". Paris Review. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ "The forgotten real-life story behind Lolita". The Sunday Edition. CBC Radio. 9 September 2018. Retrieved 9 September 2019.
- ^ McAlpin, Heller (2018-09-11). "'The Real Lolita' Investigates The True Crime Story Of Sally Horner". NPR.
- ^ Waldman, Katy (2018-09-17). "The Salacious Non-Mystery of "The Real Lolita"". The New Yorker.
- ^ https://artsfile.ca/the-real-lolita/
- ^ https://www.penguinrandomhouse.com/authors/244394/sarah-weinman
- ^ "Women Crime Writers". The Library of America. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ Cha, Steph. "Dormant Superheroines: Steph Cha interviews Sarah Weinman". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
- ^ "The Crime Lady". Tiny Letter. Retrieved 28 January 2018.
External links
- Authors website
- Weinman at "Publisher's Marketplace", Publishers Weekly
- Appearances on C-SPAN
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