Debbie Nathan
Debbie Nathan (born August 27, 1950 in Houston , Texas ) is an American journalist , translator and author .
Life
Nathan grew up in a Jewish household in Houston, she attended Shimer College in Illinois and graduated from Temple University with a bachelor's degree in 1972 . In technical linguistics , she won a Master of Arts Accounts of the University of Texas , El Paso .
Nathan taught English as a second language at Brooklyn College in New York before moving to Chicago as a journalist in 1980 for the Chicago Reader newspaper . In 1984 she became a journalist for the El Paso Times in El Paso, Texas . She has been a freelance journalist since the 1980s and worked, for example, for the San Antonio Current before moving to New York in 2000.
In Nathan's last work, Sybil Exposed , she takes on the case of Sybil , who doctors say had a dissociative identity disorder (DID). In her book she revealed that Sybil's symptom picture probably had other causes.
Nathan serves on the board of an organization that cares for people falsely accused of molesting children, the National Center for Reason and Justice (NCRJ).
Prizes and awards
- Henry L. Mencken Award for Investigative Journalism
- Pen West Award for Journalism
Publications
- Women and other aliens. Essays from the US-Mexico Border . Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Texas 1991, ISBN 0-938317-08-3 .
- with Michael R. Snedecker: Satan's Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt . Basic Books, New York City 1995, ISBN 0-465-07181-3 .
- Pornography (Groundwork Guides) . Groundwood Books, Toronto 2007, ISBN 978-0-88899-767-8 .
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Sybil Exposed. The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple Personalities . Free Press, New York City 2011, ISBN 978-1-4391-6827-1 .
- as an electronic resource: Scribe Publishers, Brunswick 2011, ISBN 978-1-921844-49-2 .
Translations
- with Willivaldo Delgadillo: Luis Humberto Delgadillo : The Moon Will Forever Be a Distant Love (La luna será un dificíl amor), Cinco Puntos Press, El Paso, Teas 1997, ISBN 0-938317-31-8 .
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| personal data | |
|---|---|
| SURNAME | Nathan, Debbie |
| BRIEF DESCRIPTION | American journalist and author |
| DATE OF BIRTH | August 27, 1950 |
| PLACE OF BIRTH | Houston , Texas |