Editing Go Ask Alice (section)

==Diarist's name==

The anonymous diarist's name is never revealed in the book.<ref name=logan>{{cite news |last=Logan |first=Patty |date=1974-01-12 |title=Diary of a 15-Year-Old Recommended by Reviewer |url=https://www.newspapers.com/image/101057987/ |newspaper=The Cincinnati Enquirer |location=Cincinnati, Ohio |page=13 |access-date=2016-12-27 |quote=The book's subject (we are never given her name, but assume she is Alice) comes from a normal, middle-class family... |via=Newspapers.com |url-access=subscription }}</ref> In an episode where the diarist describes having sex with a drug dealer, she quotes an onlooker's remark indicating that her name may be Carla.<ref>{{cite book |author=Anonymous |date=1971 |title=Go Ask Alice |location=New York City |publisher=Prentice-Hall |edition=Avon Books paperback |publication-date=1972 |pages=102–103 |isbn=0380005239 |quote=If I don't give Big Ass a blow he'll cut off my supply...Big Ass makes me do it before he gives me the load. Everybody is just lying around here like they're dead and Little Jacon is yelling, 'Mama, Daddy can't come now. He's humping Carla.'}}</ref><ref name=turner>{{cite web |url=http://alittleshelfofheaven.blogspot.com/2013/04/guest-review-go-ask-alice-by-anonymous.html |title=Guest Review: Go Ask Alice by Anonymous |author=Turner |date=2013-04-25 |website=alittleshelfofheaven.blogspot.com |publisher=Kristy |access-date=2017-03-24 |quote=Despite the book being titled ''Go Ask Alice'', the “Alice” character is only mentioned briefly, after the narrator just picks up her bags and leaves home, and ends up in Coos Bay, Oregon. One sentence in the diary may, or may not, state the diarist’s name; “Daddy can’t come, he’s humping Carla”....All I can say is this encounter did not end well for “Carla” (I use the quotations because her name has never been confirmed). |url-status=live | archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324143804/http://alittleshelfofheaven.blogspot.com/2013/04/guest-review-go-ask-alice-by-anonymous.html |archive-date=2017-03-24}}</ref><ref name=girldetective>{{cite web |url=http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4607 |title="Go Ask Alice" by Beatrice Sparks et al. |author=Girl Detective |date=2012-07-11 |website=girldetective.net |publisher=Girl Detective (blog) |access-date=2017-03-24 |quote=The Alice of the title refers to the woman on drugs in the Jefferson Airplane song, as well as a girl the “narrator” meetings [sic] in the novel. It’s theorized that the author is “Carla” as from p. 113: "Big Ass makes me do it before he gives me the load. Little Jacon is yelling, “Mama, Daddy can’t come now. He’s humping Carla.” |url-status=live |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20170324144721/http://www.girldetective.net/?p=4607 |archive-date=2017-03-24}}</ref> Although a girl named Alice appears very briefly in the book, she is not the diarist, but a fellow runaway whom the diarist meets on the street in [[Coos Bay, Oregon]].<ref name=turner /><ref name=girldetective /><ref>{{cite book |author=Anonymous |date=1971 |title=Go Ask Alice |location=New York City |publisher=Prentice-Hall |edition=Avon Books paperback |publication-date=1972 |page=107 |isbn=0380005239 |quote=Then I talked to Alice, who I met just sitting stoned on the curb. She didn't know whether she was running away from something or running to something, but she admitted that deep in her heart she wanted to go home.}}</ref>

Despite the lack of any evidence in the book that the diarist's name is Alice, the covers of various editions have suggested that her name is Alice by including [[blurb]] text such as "This is Alice's true story"<ref name=alicearrow>{{cite book |author=Anonymous |date=1971 |publication-date=2011 |title=Go Ask Alice |location=London |publisher=[[Random House|Arrow Books]] |page=Front cover |no-pp=yes|isbn=9780099557494 |edition=Mandarin Paperbacks 1991 }}</ref> and "You can't ask Alice anything anymore. But you can do something—read her diary."<ref>{{cite book |author=Anonymous |date=1971 |publication-date=1972 |title=Go Ask Alice |location=New York City |publisher=[[Avon (publisher)|Avon Books]] |page=Back cover |no-pp=yes|lccn=74-159446 |edition=First paperback |id=Avon Catalog N431}}</ref> Reviewers and commentators have also frequently referred to the anonymous diarist as "Alice",<ref name=oppenheimer /><ref name=chapman /><ref name=businessclarksville /><ref name=loebker /><ref name=logan /><ref name=durchschlag /><ref name=janke /> sometimes for convenience.<ref name="katsoulis">{{cite book|last=Katsoulis|first=Melissa|url=https://books.google.com/books?id=IKjABAAAQBAJ&pg=PT75|title=Telling Tales: A History of Literary Hoaxes|date=2009|publisher=Constable & Robinson Ltd|isbn=9781472107831|location=London|page=PT75-76}}</ref><ref name=goldberg>{{cite web |url=http://www.linagoldberg.com/goaskalice.html  |title="Curiouser and Curiouser": Fact, Fiction, and the Anonymous Author of Go Ask Alice |last=Goldberg |first=Lina |date=2009-10-02 |website=linagoldberg.com |url-status=dead |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20100325212945/http://www.linagoldberg.com/goaskalice.html |archive-date=2010-03-25 |access-date=2016-12-22}}</ref>

In the 1973 television film based on the book, the protagonist played by Jamie Smith-Jackson is named "Alice".<ref name=oconnor /> The protagonist is also named "Alice Aberdeen" in the 1976 stage play adaptation.<ref name=shiras />