“Dr.” Beatrice Sparks, a Mormon writer with sketchy qualifications who scored a book deal, is the subject of journalist Rick Emerson’s new book, “Unmask Alice.”
, became a TV movie, and then was adapted for the stage. At the end of 2020, a special 50th-anniversary edition was rereleased to similar fanfare.’s half century of success wasn’t luck or a fluke, but the result of a formula that proved impenetrable. First, it was crammed full of underage sex, hard drugs, profanity, homosexuality, and prostitution. Poor writing and plot inconsistencies didn’t make the book “bad,” but “real.
by libraries and school boards—making it all the more alluring to readers desperate to get their hands on the controversial text.was a fabrication and fraud. The real author was “Dr.” Beatrice Sparks, a middle-aged Mormon writer with sketchy qualifications who scored a book deal with a lie and then watched it snowball to epic proportions, all while penning nearly a dozen more “real diaries,” some supposedly written by her so-called patients, and collecting residuals.
The official backstory was that Alice was a girl from California who had fallen into drug and alcohol abuse. At some point, her parents came home and found her dead following a relapse. But she’d left behind these diaries, which her parents discovered and read, then decided to make sure their daughter’s death served some greater good by giving it to a publisher. They wanted to share her story with the world to help other teenagers avoid the same fate.Over time, other facets of the story emerged.
Sympathetic is the wrong word, but I think she felt she was doing the right thing. She was a person who worked hard to paint a picture of what she wanted to be and the kind of life she wanted to live. She relentlessly pursued this until it became true. At least that’s the story. Beatrice Sparks wasn’t just an unreliable narrator for other peoples’ lives—she was an unreliable narrator for her own life.
it resonated with them, and that was real. Seeing yourself in art, maybe you read a poem or you listen to a song, and you think to yourself, Oh, my God,knows exactly what I’m going through. Sensing that someone understands you and has gone through what you’re going through, truth or not, it’s a real thing. That’s something that cannot be faked.
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