Sarah Weinman

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Sarah Weinman
close up head shot of author sarah weinman in glasses
Sarah Weinman author photo
Occupation News Editor, Publishers Marketplace
Residence Brooklyn, NY
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 edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.[2] Prior to that she 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.[3] 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.[4]

Works[edit]

Non-fiction[edit]

  • Weinman, Sarah (September 11, 2018). The Real Lolita (Hardcover) The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World. Ecco (US). ISBN 9780062661920. 
    • ‟The Real Lolita is a tour de force of literary detective work. Not only does it shed new light on the terrifying true saga that influenced Nabokov’s masterpiece, it restores the forgotten victim to our consciousness.” – David Grann, author of Killers of the Flower Moon
    • Kirkus Reviews: "A tantalizing, entertaining true-life detective and literary story whose roots were hidden deep in a novel that has perplexed and challenged readers for decades." [5]

Collections[edit]

Essays[edit]

References[edit]

  1. ^ Gallagher, Cullen. "Women in Crime: An Interview with Sarah Weinman". Paris Review. Retrieved 28 January 2018. 
  2. ^ "Women Crime Writers". The Library of America. Retrieved 28 January 2018. 
  3. ^ Cha, Steph. "Dormant Superheroines: Steph Cha interviews Sarah Weinman". Los Angeles Review of Books. Retrieved 28 January 2018. 
  4. ^ "The Crime Lady". Tiny Letter. Retrieved 28 January 2018. 
  5. ^ https://www.kirkusreviews.com/book-reviews/sarah-weinman/the-real-lolita/

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