Mencken award for her reporting of the daycare hysteria in The Village Voice and elsewhere. Nathan was the first journalist of national stature to write critically about the daycare cases. For this work, she also won the John Bartlow Martin Award for Public Interest Magazine Journalism in 1991. She is co-author, with Mike Snedeker, of Satan’s Silence: Ritual Abuse and the Making of a Modern American Witch Hunt, and author of Sybil Exposed: The Extraordinary Story Behind the Famous Multiple-Personality Case.