Sarah Weinman is the author of WITHOUT CONSENT, 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 Vanity Fair, the Atlantic, Esquire and New York magazine. Weinman is the Crime & Mystery columnist for the New York Times Book Review and lives in New York City.

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.