Should Go Ask Alice be banned from Public Schools and Libraries?
When I first went to create this lens I was wholely under the impression that Go Ask Alice by Anonymous was truly by Anonymous. Since that moment I stumbled upon the Wikipedia article for Go Ask Alice that I learned it indeed had some authorship. Beatrice Sparks, a psychologist and Mormon youth counselor turned author, wrote at least part of this book. She holds the copyright as author but claims to have received the diary from the family of ‘Alice’ who was one of her patients. Yet no one has ever stepped forward to claim ‘Alice’ as there own, unlike the other families whose children have become part of her novels. Regardless, Go Ask Alice is a good read to scare you from drug use. Which is exactly what Ms. Sparks intended by editing, writing, or whatever she did to it.
