Papers, 1949-2000.

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Papers, 1949-2000.

Includes her personal and business correspondence; correspondence with readers; drafts and printer's proofs of books; and posters about her books. Material relates to the following books: Go ask Alice; Almost lost: the true story of an anonymous teenager's life on the streets; Annie's baby: the diary of an anonymous, pregnant teenager; Jay's journal; It happened to Nancy; and Voices. Major themes include adolescent drug use, depression, psychotherapy, pregnancy, witchcraft, suicide, AIDS, attitudes, and interpersonal communications; also intergenerational conflict. Also includes LP recordings of "Family Achievement Institute," ghostwritten by Beatrice Sparks and Stephen R. Covey, narrated by Art Linkletter and Pat Boone. Also includes correspondence and other information documenting her efforts to share copies of the Book of Mormon, with non-Mormons. A few photographs are scattered through the collection.

4 boxes (ca. 3.5 lin. ft.)

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SNAC Resource ID: 8322637

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Boone, Pat

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Sparks, Beatrice, 1917-2012

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Author with Ph.D. in human behavior. Specialist in child and adolescent psychology. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormon). From the guide to the Beatrice Sparks papers, 1949-2000, (L. Tom Perry Special Collections) Author, earned Ph. D. in human behavior. Specialist in child and adolescent psychology. Member of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. From the description of Papers, 1949-2000. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 84...

Covey, Stephen R.

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Administrative assistant to the university president and director of University Relations, 1965-1966. From the description of Records, 1959-1970. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 367906275 ...

Linkletter, Art, 1912-2010

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Biographical Note Arthur Gordon Linkletter was born July 17, 1912, in Moosejaw, Saskatchewan. He was abandoned by his parents immediately after his birth, and adopted as an infant. He moved to Lowell, Massachusetts with his adoptive parents, and then migrated to California at the age of three. Linkletter attended high school in San Diego, where he was a star basketball player and swimmer. He graduated when he was 15, and subsequently spent 3 ...