Sarah Weinman is the author of three books: The Real Lolita, named a Best Book of 2018 by NPR, BuzzFeed, The National Post, Literary Hub, the San Francisco Chronicle, and Vulture, which she worked on at MacDowell in 2017; Scoundrel, a Best Book of 2022 by Time, Esquire, CBC, and NPR and a New York Times Book Review Editor's Choice, which she worked on at MacDowell in 2020; and Without Consent, forthcoming in fall 2025 from Ecco/HarperCollins. She is also the editor of several anthologies, most recently Evidence of Things Seen: True Crime in an Era of Reckoning (Ecco, 2023).
Weinman is the Crime & Mystery columnist at the New York Times Book Review, and her work has also appeared in Rolling Stone, Vanity Fair, The The Atlantic, Esquire, and New York Magazine, among other outlets. Weinman also writes the “Crime Lady” newsletter, covering crime fiction, true crime, and all points in between. Weinman has been nominated for a National Magazine Award in Reporting.
During her 2024 residency, she finished a draft of Without Consent , which examines the first major American spousal rape trial and its legal and emotional ramifications. Weinman also worked on essays about the 20th century women crime writers Josephine Tey and Ethel Lina White and edited a draft of a feature story on a 1960s cold case, which appeared in the December 2024 issue of Rolling Stone.
Portrait by Nina Subin
