Go ask alice real person

1971 novel by Beatrice Sparks

This article is about the book. For the song by Jefferson Airplane, see White Rabbit (song).

Go Ask Alice is a 1971 book about a teenage girl who develops a drug addiction at age 15 and runs away from home on a journey of self-destructive escapism.

Attributed to "Anonymous", the book is in diary form, and was originally presented as being the edited actual diary of the unnamed teenage protagonist.^[1][2] Questions about the book's authenticity and true authorship began to arise in the late 1970s, and Beatrice Sparks is now generally viewed as the author of the found manuscript–styled fictional document.^[3] Sparks went on to write numerous other books purporting to be real diaries of troubled teenagers.^{[2][4][5][6][7]} Some sources have also named Linda Glovach as a co-author of the book.^[1][8] Nevertheless, its popularity has endured,