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Lucia Stein and Lucy Sweeney

Go Ask Alice, the haunting diary of an anonymous teenager, was a bestseller and effective tool in the war on drugs. But was it real?

When Go Ask Alice was first released in 1971, one of its biggest mysteries — and perhaps its bestselling point — was its author.

Or rather, it was the absence of an author. Instead, listed beneath the title on the book's cover was one word that sparked all kinds of questions: Anonymous.

Who were they? Why did they choose to be anonymous? And what happened to them?

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