Sarah Weinman is the author of SCOUNDREL and THE REAL LOLITA, and the editor of UNSPEAKABLE ACTS: True Tales of Crime, Murder, Deceit & Obsession and EVIDENCE OF THINGS SEEN: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning. She was a 2020 National Magazine Award finalist for reporting and a Calderwood Journalism Fellow at MacDowell, and her work has appeared in New York magazine, the Wall Street Journal, Vanity Fair and the Washington Post. Weinman writes the crime column for the New York Times Book Review, and she lives in New York City and Northampton, MA.

Books by Sarah Weinman

The Real Lolita: A Lost Girl, an Unthinkable Crime, and a Scandalous Masterpiece

by Sarah Weinman - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

Very few readers know that the subject of Vladimir Nabokov’s LOLITA was inspired by a real-life case: the 1948 abduction of 11-year-old Sally Horner. Weaving together suspenseful crime narrative, cultural and social history, and literary investigation, THE REAL LOLITA tells Sally Horner’s full story for the very first time.