Lucy in the Sky
A 2012 young adult diary novel of a teenager's descent into drug use, published under the byline Anonymous in the Go Ask Alice tradition.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 2012
- Form
- Novels
- Authorship
- Deliberately anonymous
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- In copyright
- Reference
- Wikipedia · Wikidata
The authorship story
Lucy in the Sky, published in 2012, presents itself as the recovered diary of a sixteen year old girl whose experimentation escalates through the California party scene, in the packaged-anonymity tradition that Go Ask Alice established and publishers have maintained since. No author is credited and none has been identified in the documented record. The anonymity is a genre convention, the fiction of the found diary, and this site reports it exactly as the record stands: byline Anonymous, author unidentified, no speculation.
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Questions readers ask
Who wrote Lucy in the Sky?
The author of Lucy in the Sky is deliberately anonymous. This site reports the documented record and does not speculate about identities.
Can I read Lucy in the Sky for free?
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When was Lucy in the Sky published?
Lucy in the Sky was published in 2012 without an author’s name.
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