Biography beatrice spark

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Beatrice Sparks holds the copyright to and is almost certainly the author of Go Ask Alice, a diary claimed to be the anonymous diary of a teenage drug addict. (Please note that this blog post contains discussion of suicide and descriptions of gross behavior, and that Sparks is a morally bankrupt person to a pretty depressing degree.)

Because Sparks was a compulsive liar, it is difficult to figure out any of the details of her life. She was born January 1917, when her mother was on a train. Sparks's mother allegedly found a porter, told him to watch her two small children, and told the children to behave and she'd pick them up at their destination. Then Sparks’s mother got off at the next stop, which was a mining camp, found the doctor, and told him she was giving birth.

When Sparks was fifteen, in the middle of the Great Depression, her father walked out to live with a woman half his age. The heavily Mormon town blamed Sparks’s mother: a good man doesn’t walk out unless his wife gives him a reason. Sparks had to drop out of high school and wait tables for a living. At seventeen, tired of the shame and gossip, she left for San Francisco.

Sparks married young. Her husband LaVorn was an early investor in oil in Texas, and by thirty Sparks was quite ric

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Beatrice Sparks

Go Ask Alice
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3.74 avg rating — 283,301 ratings — published 1971 — 163 editions

Jay's Journal

3.24 avg rating — 7,566 ratings — published 1979 — 22 editions

Annie's Baby: The Diary of Anonymous, A Pregnant Teenager

3.60 avg rating — 2,821 ratings — published 1998 — 17 editions

Treacherous Love: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

3.30 avg rating — 998 ratings — published 2000 — 10 editions

Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager

3.25 avg rating — 825 ratings — published 2002 — 8 editions

Almost Lost: The True Story of an Anonymous Teenager's Life on the Streets
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3.41 avg rating — 598 ratings — published 1996 — 10 editions

Finding Katie: The Diary of Anonymous, A Teenager in Foster Care

3.56 avg rating — 524 ratings — published 2005 — 8 editions

Voices: The Stories of Four Troubled Teenagers

3.35 avg rating — 108 ratings — published 1978 — 5 editions

Go Ask Alice: A Full Length Play
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3.39 avg rating — 38 ratings — published 1976 — 3 editions

It's My Candle: By an Anonymous Teenager - A True Story from His

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