Unknown AuthorBILLY MILLIGAN CAN BE ANYONE HE WANTS TO BE...EXCEPT HIMSELF.
Out of control of his own actions, Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle which culminated in late 1977 when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case of multiple personality ever recorded.
TWENTY-FOUR PEOPLE LIVE INSIDE BILLY MILLIGAN
Philip, a petty criminal; Kevin, who dealt drugs and masterminded a drug store robbery; April, whose only ambition was to kill Billy’s stepfather; Adalana, the shy, lonely, affection-starved lesbian who “used" Billy's body in the rapes which led to his arrest; David, the eight-year-old “keeper of pain"; and all of the others, including men, women, several children, both boys and girls, and the Teacher, the only one who can put them all together. You will meet each in this often shocking true story. And you will be drawn deeply into the mind of this tortured young man and his splintered, terrifying world.
“An absorbing, often heart-rending exploration of the human mind." —Cosmopolitan SPECIAL TO THIS EDITION—A NEW AFTERWORD BY THE AUTHOR
“A FASCINATING WORK.”
—Los Angeles Times
“With brilliance and discernment, Daniel Keyes adds to the popular literature about multiple personality. As a chilling kaleidoscope of horrifying events, The Minds of Billy Milligan is a shocker that will rivet even the casual reader to the page. As a psychological and sociological document, the book is a milestone. I congratulate Daniel Keyes.”
—Flora Rheta Schreiber, author of Sybil
“HARROWING, COMPELLING. It has the force and conviction of truth.”
—Village Voice Literary Supplement
“Mr. Keyes, who spent two years with Billy Milligan and interviewed his family, friends and acquaintances, as well as some of those in the medical profession who have tried to comprehend him, tells this complicated story well. . . . This book will attract a substantial readership.” —The New York Times Book Review