Unmask Alice by Rick Emerson was a very enjoyable read.
It's about Beatrice Sparks and her unique genre of fake teen diaries, of which Go Ask Alice was the most famous. It chronicles her whole-cloth invention of tragic teens who succumbed to whatever the current panic is consuming late-to-mid-twentieth-century concerned suburban parents: from accidentally becoming acid freaks to ritualistic satan worship to HIV/AIDS.
It's about Beatrice Sparks and her unique genre of fake teen diaries, of which Go Ask Alice was the most famous. It chronicles her whole-cloth invention of tragic teens who succumbed to whatever the current panic is consuming late-to-mid-twentieth-century concerned suburban parents: from accidentally becoming acid freaks to ritualistic satan worship to HIV/AIDS.