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Hailley Dawn--✖ When you love somebody, they'll always leave too soon ✖ asked this question about Go Ask Alice:
is it a real or fake story?
Alexandra Carpenter It is widely believed that the "editor", Beatrice Sparks, wrote it as fiction and claimed it was a real diary. Reading the book, though, it's clearly …moreIt is widely believed that the "editor", Beatrice Sparks, wrote it as fiction and claimed it was a real diary. Reading the book, though, it's clearly fake. No teenager switches on and off between profanity while simultaneously using a higher caliber of vocabulary at intermittent points. Additionally, many people have noticed style consistencies between the books she claims to have "edited."

Short answer: It's a fake story.(less)
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