Sarah Horowitz is professor of history at W&L University, where she is also head of the Women’s, Gender and Sexuality Studies program. She teaches classes on the history of France, gender and sexuality, and crime and scandal.

She is the author of THE RED WIDOW: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind it All and FRIENDSHIP AND POLITICS IN POST-REVOLUTIONARY FRANCE. Her work has appeared in The Washington Post as well as Nursing Clio.

She has a BA from Wellesley College and a PhD in modern European history from the University of California, Berkeley.

She lives in Virginia with her wife and their wildly over-confident puppy. In her spare time, she enjoys project baking, reading and catching up on the latest scammer documentaries.

Books by Sarah Horowitz

The Red Widow: The Scandal that Shook Paris and the Woman Behind It All

by Sarah Horowitz - History, Nonfiction, True Crime

Paris, 1889: Margeurite Steinheil is a woman with ambition. But having been born into a middle-class family and trapped in a marriage to a failed artist 20 years her senior, she knows her options are limited. Determined to fashion herself into a new woman, Meg orchestrates a scandalous plan with her most powerful resource: her body. She takes elite men as her lovers, charming her way into the good graces of the rich and powerful. A real-life femme fatale, Meg influences government positions and resorts to blackmail --- and maybe even poisoning --- to get her way. Leaving a trail of death and disaster in her wake, she earns the name the "Red Widow" for mysteriously surviving a home invasion that leaves both her husband and mother dead.