Mid 1900s

Mid century anonymity clusters around testimony too raw to sign, of which A Woman in Berlin is the defining case in this collection.

2 works.

Later revealed
A Woman in Berlin
Published 1954 · memoir
An anonymous diary of a woman's survival in Berlin during the Soviet occupation of 1945. The diarist was identified after her death as journalist Marta Hillers.
Later revealed
Go Ask Alice
Published 1971 · novel
The 1971 book marketed as a real teenager's drug diary, credited to Anonymous. It is now documented as the work of Beatrice Sparks.