"Go Ask Alice" professes to be a teen girl's "real diary," but the infamous descent-into-drug-abuse bestseller was a work of fiction concocted by Beatrice Sparks (right). Getty Images (2) In 1971, ...

At the recent Rock ‘n’ Roll Fantasy Camp in Scottsdale, Arizona, amateur musicians jammed with the mega-rockers Alice Cooper and Judas Priest’s Rob Halford. This writer sat in on drums. The great ...

Go Ask Alice was published anonymously in 1971, but in the last two decades, it still lives in the top 25 most frequently banned books, according to the American Library Association. That's stamina.

Author Rick Emerson spent six years investigating the anonymous authors of the publicized diaries Go Ask Alice and Jay’s Journal. Sign up for the Hello, Houston! daily newsletter to get local reports ...