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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 Guardian, and Buzzfeed, among other outlets. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Cover image of Sally Horner after her rescue, March 1950, courtesy of the author

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Names: Weinman, Sarah, author.

Title: The real Lolita : the kidnapping of Sally Horner and the novel that scandalized the world / [by Sarah Weinman].

Description: First edition. | New York, NY : HarperCollins Publishers, 2018. | Includes bibliographical references and index.

Subjects: LCSH: Horner, Sally. | Kidnapping—United States—Case studies. | Child abuse—United States—Case studies. | Captivity—United States—Case studies.

Classification: LCC HV6603.H67 (ebook) | LCC HV6603.H67 W45 2018 (print) | DDC 362.88092 [B]—dc23

LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2018006366

Digital Edition SEPTEMBER 2018 ISBN: 978-0-06-266194-4

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Print ISBN: 978-0-06-266192-0

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IMAGES

Florence “Sally” Horner, age nine: Camden County Historical Society

Photograph of Sally discovered at the Atlantic City boardinghouse in August 1948, six weeks after her disappearance: International News Photos/courtesy of the author

Vladimir Nabokov holding a butterfly, 1947, at Harvard’s Museum of Comparative Zoology, where he was a fellow: Constantine Joffe for Vogue/Getty Images

Mug shot of Frank La Salle taken upon the start of his prison sentence for the statutory rape of five girls, 1943: New Jersey State Archives

Mitchell Cohen questions Howard Unruh in a hospital bed, September 7, 1949: Associated Press

Nabokov re-creating the process of writing Lolita on note cards: Carl Mydans, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Ruth Janisch, ca. 1940s: Janisch family

Sally on the telephone to her family in the hours after her rescue: International News Photos/courtesy of the author

Sally Horner and Mitchell Cohen board a Philadelphia-bound United Airlines flight, March 31, 1950: Ernest K. Bennett/Associated Press

Sally sees her mother, Ella Horner, for the first time in twenty-one months: Associated Press

Sally leans on her mother’s shoulder minutes after being reunited: International News Photos/courtesy of the author

Frank La Salle, after pleading guilty: International News Photos/courtesy of the author

Sally Horner and her older sister, Susan Panaro, in the family greenhouse: Panaro/Chiemingo family archives

A candid shot of Sally holding a newspaper: Panaro/Chiemingo family archives

Véra and Nabokov chasing butterflies: Carl Mydans, The LIFE Picture Collection/Getty Images

Carol Starts, Sally Horner’s best friend, summer of 1952: Panaro/Chiemingo family archives

Edward Baker’s high school graduation photo, 1950: Vineland High School yearbook, retrieved via Ancestry.com

AP story of Sally Horner’s death transcribed onto a note card by Vladimir Nabokov: LOC note card, Box 2, Folder 14, Vladimir Vladimirovich Nabokov Papers, Manuscript Division, Library of Congress, Washington, DC

Image accompanying Peter Welding’s November 1963 article for Nugget: courtesy of the author

Sally Horner, age fifteen, summer of 1952: Panaro/Chiemingo family archives