A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter \' s college roommates "Chilling .
He lives in Los Angeles..
His writing has appeared in Provincetown Arts, Bat City Review, The Sarah Lawrence Review, The Westchester Review, The Offbeat, The Fourth River, and The Bennington Review .
He is the winner of the Stanley and Evelyn Lipkin Prize for Poetry, the Lynn Garnier Memorial Award and is the recipient of fellowships from The Frost Place, Tent, The Sarah Lawrence Summer Seminar for Writers, and The Community of Writers at Squaw Valley.
About author(s): Daniel Barban Levin holds an MFA in poetry from the University of California, Irvine, where he taught creative writing and rhetoric, and a bachelor\'s degree from Sarah Lawrence College.
Beginning the moment Daniel set foot on Sarah Lawrence\'s idyllic campus and spanning the two years he spent in the grip of a megalomaniac, this brave, lyrical, and redemptive Memoir reveals how a group of friends were led from campus to a cult without the world even noticing.
In February 2020, he was finally indicted on charges of extortion, sex trafficking, forced labor, and money laundering.
In April 2019, a New York magazine cover story, "The Stolen Kids of Sarah Lawrence," exposed Ray\'s crimes to the world.
After two years of escalating psychological, physical, and sexual abuse, Daniel found the strength to escape from Ray\'s influence and take control of his own life.
Ray coached Daniel through a difficult break-up, slowly drawing him into his web.
Daniel Barban Levin was one of the original residents of Slonim Woods 9.
Over the course of innumerable counseling sessions and "family meetings," the intense and forceful Ray convinced his daughter\'s friends that he alone could help them "achieve clarity." Eventually, Ray and the students moved into a small Manhattan apartment, beginning years of manipulation and abuse, as Ray tightened his control over his young charges through blackmail, extortion, and ritualized humiliation.
Larry Ray arrived at the dorm, a communal house called Slonim Woods 9, and stayed for the whole year.
Her father, Larry Ray, was just released from prison, having spent three years behind bars after a conviction during a bitter custody dispute.
No one objected. a powerful portrayal of a young man\'s ability to emerge whole from an experience intended to break him."-- Publishers Weekly In September 2010, at the beginning of the academic year at Sarah Lawrence College, a sophomore named Talia Ray asked her roommates if her father could stay with them for a while. . . eloquent . . .
A stunning firsthand account of the creation of a modern cult under conman Larry Ray and the horrifying costs paid by his young victims: his daughter \' s college roommates "Chilling
