Debbie Nathan

Debbie Nathan ( born August 27, 1950 in Houston, Texas) is an American journalist, translator and writer.

Life

Nathan grew up in a Jewish household in Houston, you attended Shimer College in Illinois and graduated in 1972 from Temple University with a Bachelor exam from. In Linguistics, she won a Master of Arts degree from the University of Texas, El Paso.

Nathan teaches the subject English as a second language at New York's Brooklyn College before moving to Chicago in 1980 as a journalist for the newspaper Chicago Reader. In 1984 she was in El Paso, Texas, a journalist at the El Paso Times. Since the 1980s, she is a freelance journalist and worked for example for the San Antonio Current before settling down in New York in 2000.

In Nathan's Sybil Exposed last work she takes on the case of Sybil, which according to doctors under MPS ( Multiple Personality Disorder ) or dissociative identity disorder (DIS ) suffered. She revealed in her book that Sybil's illness had other causes.

Nathan is on the board of an organization that cares about people who have been falsely accused of molesting children, the National Center for Reason and Justice ( NCRJ ).

Prizes and awards

  • H. L. Mencken Award for Investigative Journalism
  • Pen West Award for Journalism

Publications

  • Women and other aliens. Essays from the U.S. - Mexico Border. Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Texas, 1991, ISBN 0-938317-08-3.
  • Michael R. Snedecker: Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt. Basic Books, New York 1995, ISBN 0-465-07181-3.
  • Pornography ( Groundwork Guides ). Groundwood Books, Toronto 2007, ISBN 978-0-88899-767-8.
  • Sybil Exposed. The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personalities. Free Press, New York 2011, ISBN 978-1-4391-6827-1. as an electronic resource: Scribe Publishers, Brunswick 2011, ISBN 978-1-921844-49-2.

Translations

  • With Willi Valdo Delgadillo Luis Humberto Delgadillo: The Moon Will Forever Be a Distant Love (La luna será un amor dificil ), Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Teas 1997, ISBN 0-938317-31-8.
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