Scoundrel: How a Convicted Murderer Persuaded the Women Who Loved Him, the Conservative Establishment, and the Courts to Set Him Free. The Real Lolita: The Kidnapping of Sally Horner and the Novel that Scandalized the World. Weinman has published a weekly newsletter about crime fiction called The Crime Lady since January 2015. Her essays have been featured in Slate, The New York Times, Hazlitt Magazine and The New Republic. 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. Weinman edited the compendium Women Crime Writers which republishes crime fiction by women written in the 1940s and 1950s.
She later graduated from McGill University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Weinman is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where she graduated from Nepean High School. The book received mostly positive reviews from NPR, The Los Angeles Times, The Washington Post, and The Boston Globe. 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. There are 13 pieces in all and as a collection, they showcase writing about true crime across the broadest possible spectrum, while also reflecting what makes crime stories so transfixing and irresistible to the modern reader.Sarah Weinman is a journalist, editor, and crime fiction authority. Michelle Dean’s “Dee Dee Wanted Her Daughter To Be Sick” went viral when it first published and is the basis for the TV show The Act and Pamela Colloff’s “The Reckoning,” is the gold standard for forensic journalism. She culls together some of the most refreshing and exciting contemporary journalists and chroniclers of crime working today.
With podcasts like My Favorite Murder and In the Dark, bestsellers like I’ll Be Gone in the Dark and Furious Hours, and TV hits like American Crime Story and Wild Wild Country, the cultural appetite for stories of real people doing terrible things is insatiable.Īcclaimed author of The Real Lolitaand editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s (Library of America) and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives (Penguin), Sarah Weinman brings together an exemplary collection of recent true crime tales. The appeal of true-crime stories has never been higher. A brilliant anthology of modern true-crime writing that illustrates the appeal of this powerful and popular genre, edited and curated by Sarah Weinman, the award-winning author of The Real Lolita
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