[1] 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.

[2][3][4] The book received mostly positive reviews[5] from NPR,[6] The Los Angeles Times,[7] The Washington Post,[8] and The Boston Globe.

[9] Weinman is a native of Ottawa, Ontario, Canada, where she graduated from Nepean High School.

[10] She later graduated from McGill University and the John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

[13] Her essays have been featured in Slate, The New York Times, Hazlitt Magazine and The New Republic.