Biography
Nathan was born in 1950 into a Jewish family in Houston, Texas. She received her B.A. from Temple University in 1972, after first attending Shimer College, a very small Great Books college in Illinois. She went on to receive a master's degree in linguistics from the University of Texas El Paso.
Nathan taught English as a second language at Brooklyn College, then moved to Chicago in 1980, where she began her journalism career at the Chicago Reader. She returned to El Paso in 1984 to work for the El Paso Times, then became a freelance journalist. In 1998 she took a job writing for the San Antonio Current, then moved to New York City in 2000.
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