High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! Go Ask Alice is a controversial 1971 book about the life of a troubled teenage girl. The book continues its claim to be the actual diary of an anonymous teenage girl who became addicted to drugs, but this has been dismissed as false. Beatrice Sparks is listed as the author of the book by the United States Government. The novel is presented as a testimony against drug use. The diarist`s name is never given in the book.