We now know ‘troubled teen’ memoirs like Go Ask Alice were a Mormon wife’s fiction – so why are we still treating them as truth?
- Written by Kate Cantrell, Senior Lecturer — Writing, Editing, Publishing, University of Southern Queensland
In 1971, an extraordinary book appeared. Published by an “anonymous” author, Go Ask Alice documented the story of an ordinary American girl and her descent into a world of drug addiction, prostitution, and madness.
You have likely heard of this book. Perhaps a dog-eared copy was passed around your schoolyard, or you read it alone at...
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