The Incest Diary
A 2017 memoir of childhood sexual abuse by a father, published anonymously to protect its author. The anonymity is deliberate and is respected here.
- Original byline
- Anonymous
- Published
- 2017
- Form
- Memoirs
- Authorship
- Deliberately anonymous
- Reason for anonymity
- Unrecorded
- Copyright
- In copyright
- Reference
- Wikipedia · Wikidata
The authorship story
The Incest Diary was published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux in 2017, a short, unflinching memoir of a father's sexual abuse across a childhood, written with a control that reviewers found both masterly and nearly unbearable. It carries no author's name. The anonymity is protective in the most serious sense available to this subject, shielding the author and implicating family members from identification, and the publisher has stood behind it. In line with this site's editorial standards, this entry reports the documented record only, asserts no identity, and treats the author's anonymity as a boundary, not a mystery.
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The Incest Diary was published in 2017 without an author’s name.
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