Sarah Weinman is the editor of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s and Troubled Daughters, Twisted Wives. She covers book publishing for Publishers Marketplace, and has written for the New York Times, the Washington Post, the New Republic, the National Post (where she was the “Crimewave” columnist), Maclean’s, and Hazlitt. Her Hazlitt features have twice been nominated for National Magazine Awards. A native of Ottawa and a graduate of McGill University and John Jay College of Criminal Justice’s forensic science graduate program, Weinman lives in Brooklyn. Website: sarahweinman.com. Twitter: @sarahw.

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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” – In Kirkus Reviews
• “Drawing from interviews with relatives of those involved, Nabokov’s personal documents, and court reporting from La Salle’s trial, Weinman tells Sally’s tragic story as it has never been told before” – In Publishers Weekly

Articles and Interviews:

• “The whole truth of Sally Horner is outside the bounds of memory and research and imagination; so, too, is her immortality” – In Vanity Fair
• “Nabokov never admitted to Sally’s role in the “Lolita” backstory. But he did tuck a tribute into its pages” – In the New York Post

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