2: Journalist and author LAWRENCE WRIGHT. WRIGHT'S latest book is "Remembering Satan: A Case of Recovered Memory and the Shattering of an American Family" (Knopf) WRIGHT explores the nature of memory and the notions of recovered memory and repression. "Remembering Satan" is the story of Paul Ingram and his family. Ingram was a Washington state deputy sherrif. His two grown daughters accused him of sexually abusing them. They said that Ingram and other members of the sherriff's department had committed Satanic ritual atrocities. At first, Ingram said he had no memory of assaulting his daughters. But after hours of interrogation, Ingram was able to "remember" his crimes and he confessed. He is serving a 20 year prison sentence even though no physical evidence against him has ever been found. WRIGHT is a staff writer for the "New Yorker" where portions of "Remembering Satan" appeared last summer. He has written three previous books.
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