Beatrice Sparks,” no one has ever found any evidence of that most of the people in the journals ever existing. While these “diaries” were supposedly only “edited by Dr. My introduction to these “diaries” was It Happened to Nancy, which the middle school book fair that initially refused to sell to me because of the book’s “content” (the book was marketed as being the journal of a 14-year-old who contracted HIV after being dated raped by an older boyfriend), so my mom had to yell at them for “censorship” when she picked me up from school that day. Sparks would go on to release multiple “diaries” of “real teenagers” dealing with such issues as: anorexia, teen pregnancy and other social problems. Stories vary on how Sparks met the protagonist of Go Ask Alice (in the diary she’s unnamed, the title refers to the Jefferson Airplane song “White Rabbit”), from her being a patient, student, or neighbor of Sparks. The woman credited with “finding” and “editing” Go Ask Alice is Dr. Since it’s publication, it has maintained a cult following, has stayed in print continuously for over 40 years and was even adapted into a highly-rated TV movie (co-starring William Shatner!) in 1973.
Even if you’ve never read it, you’re probably familiar with Go Ask Alice, which when it was published in 1971, was purported to be the actual diary of a teenaged girl who had died of a drug overdose.
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