![]() It set off a demand for teenage diaries that real diaries couldn’t possibly supply, so fiction writers stepped in to fill the vacuum. The book has never been out of print and has sold roughly six million copies in the United States, roughly twice as many as Sylvia Plath’s The Bell Jar, which was published in the same year. In 1982, the New York Times reported that it was also “the most frequently censored book in high school libraries, according to a survey of librarians.” By 1979, it had already been reprinted 43 times, making it a mainstay on the American Library Association’s lists of best-ever Young Adult books. ![]() ![]() The paperback edition, published 50 years ago in 1972, became an even bigger publishing phenomenon. Go Ask Alice, purportedly a first-person account of an anonymous American teenage girl’s descent into drug dependency, was published in 1971 and became an immediate hit. ![]()
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