Mark Pendergrast is the author of For God, Country and Coca-Cola, named a Notable Book of the Year by The New York Times. A Harvard graduate, Pendergrast now lives in New England. Several years ago he was informed by his adult daughters that after recovering memories of their childhood through therapy they would no longer communicate with their father. Devastated by the sudden alienation and determined to understand the social phenomenon behind it, Pendergrast turned his investigative journalistic skills to this new phenomenon of "Repressed Memory Syndrome," or "False Memory Syndrome" as skeptics call it.