Beatrice Mathews (1917-01-15)January 15, 1917 Goldburg, Custer County, Idaho, U.S.
Died
May 15, 2012(2012-05-15) (aged 95) Provo, Utah, U.S.
Occupation
author
youth counselor
speaker
hoaxer
Language
English
Nationality
American
Notable works
Go Ask Alice Jay's Journal
Beatrice Ruby Mathews Sparks (January 15, 1917 – May 25, 2012) was a Mormon youth counselor, author, and serial hoaxer, known primarily for producing books purporting to be the "real diaries" of troubled teenagers. The books deal with topical issues such as drug abuse, Satanism, teenage pregnancy, and AIDS, and are presented as cautionary tales. Although Sparks presented herself as merely the discoverer and editor of the diaries, records at the U.S. Copyright Office list her as the sole author for all but two of them, indicating that the books were fabricated and fictional.[1][2]
^Clark, Jonathan Russell Clark (5 July 2022). "Go Ask Alice Is a Lie. But Bookstores Won't Stop Selling It". Esquire. Retrieved 6 July 2022.
^Juzwiak, Rich (26 July 2022). "The True Scammer Behind the Fake Diary 'Go Ask Alice' Duped Millions of Kids". Jezebel. Retrieved 29 November 2022.
Beatrice Ruby Mathews Sparks (January 15, 1917 – May 25, 2012) was a Mormon youth counselor, author, and serial hoaxer, known primarily for producing books...
the late 1970s, and BeatriceSparks is now generally viewed as the author of the found manuscript–styled fictional document. Sparks went on to write numerous...
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have disputed the veracity of his publications. Anonymous (actually BeatriceSparks), Go Ask Alice, Prentice-Hall (1971), was originally presented as being...
"Anonymous", it is largely or wholly the work of its purported editor, BeatriceSparks). A more recent example is Adam Rapp's The Buffalo Tree (1997). Bleak...
like, have been exposed as hoaxes, including Go Ask Alice (1971) by BeatriceSparks, A Rock and a Hard Place: One Boy's Triumphant Story (1993) by "Anthony...
creatures. The title of the teen novel Go Ask Alice (author said to be BeatriceSparks), is taken from the psychedelic song by Jefferson Airplane, "White...
Fly West, the Simon Black series. BeatriceSparks (publishing as Anonymous): Go Ask Alice, Jay's Journal Nicholas Sparks: The Notebook, The Last Song, Dear...
impersonated by look-alikes. Go Ask Alice, now known to have been written by BeatriceSparks. A Woman in Berlin, an anonymous diary detailing experiences of a German...
Kim: Empty Inside: The Diary of an Anonymous Teenager (2002 novel by BeatriceSparks) Letting Ana Go (2013 novel by Anonymous) Life in the Fat Lane (1998...
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teenage girl's descent into drug use. Later learned to be authored by BeatriceSparks, 1971 A Separate Reality, by Carlos Castaneda, 1971, account of a likely...
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