Vladimir Nabokov's Lolita is one of the most famous—and perhaps infamous—novels of all time. Yet very few of its readers know that the novel was inspired by a real-life criminal case: the 1948 abduction of eleven-year-old Sally Horner. In The Real Lolita, true-crime writer Sarah Weinman draws upon extensive investigations, interviews, legal documents, and public records to tell Sally Horner's complete story for the very first time. Weinman (author of Women Crime Writers: Eight Suspense Novels of the 1940s & 50s) will share what she believes Nabokov knew of the Sally Horner case, and what level of effort he took to disguise the dark roots of his novel, as well as the more recent appeal of the true-crime genre as a whole, and what she sees as a writer’s responsibility in true-crime truth-telling.

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A book signing will follow this program.