why is the book "go ask alice" called go ask alice? is that her name?

Question

also is there any proof that it is a real diary... and not written by beatrice sparks?

Answer 1

The title is a reference to a 1960's song (White Rabbit) by Jefferson Airplane that uses drug imagery from Lewis Carroll's Alice books:

One pill makes you larger
And one pill makes you small
And the ones that mother gives you
Don't do anything at all
Go ask Alice
When she's ten feet tall

I think the book is generally considered to be fiction now.

Answer 2

The book was named after the Jefferson Airplane song White Rabbit, which has the line GO ASK ALICE in it, regarding Alice In Wonderland. And, no, it's not a real diary of a young girl, it was written by a woman named Beatrice Sparks, who was I believe a psychologist.

Answer 3

I believe it was a book based on a diary of a teenage drug addict, it was written by anonymous, it was also a movie in the 70's once in a great while the will put it on one of the movie channels at a very late hour, so if it is ever on try and watch it.

Answer 4

And the Jefferson Airplane song is, in turn, an allusion to the scene in Alice in Wonderland, when Alice drinks three potions, one which makes her incredibly large, one which makes her small, and one which returns her to her normal size.