Too Much Caffine...

This page, run by Snopes.com discusses the authorship of Go Ask Alice. Snopes.com is a website dedicated to the debunking of Urban Myths.

It defines an Urban Myth as:
A tale is considered to be an urban legend if it circulates widely, is told and re-told with differing details (or exists in multiple versions), and is said to be true. Whether or not the events described in the tale ever actually occurred is completely irrelevant to its classification as an urban legend.

Snopes.com lists the book Go Ask Alice on it's sight because of it's "Anonymous" authorship. The book claims to be "A Real Diary" of a fifteen-year-old girl who overdosed and died.

Here is who they claim authored the book:
Go Ask Alice was the product of Beatrice Sparks, an author who has come out with a number of "teens who saw their lives ruined by their bad choices" offerings, each one presented as a true story, often in the form of a diary of an anonymous teen.

The precise authorship of Go Ask Alice is still a bit of a mystery. Beatrice Sparks is presented as its editor rather than its author, and one tantalizing mention in a 1998 New York Times book review indicates the book might have been the work of several people:

Linda Glovach, since exposed as one of the "preparers" — let's call them forgers — of Go Ask Alice, has just written Beauty Queen, about a girl who flees her alcoholic mother, becomes a stripper and dies of heroin addiction.

Our best guess is that a number of folks work at churning out these cautionary tales, which are then presented to an overly accepting public as real diaries of anonymous teens. Yet on the question of authorship, one thing is startlingly clear: whoever wrote the Go Ask Alice "diary" was not a 15-year-old girl.

I agree with some of the ideas that the website presents and some of the questions it raises about the true authorship of the book, however I am not entirely convinced that the diary account was complete fiction.