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The Minds of Billy Milligan

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Country
  
United States

ISBN
  
0-3945-1943-4

Originally published
  
October 1981

Genre
  
Biography

Followed by
  
The Milligan Wars

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Publication date
  
October 1981

OCLC
  
7574826

Author
  
Daniel Keyes

Page count
  
374

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Media type
  
Print (hardcover & paperback)

Pages
  
374 (1981) 426 (1982,1995)

Publishers
  
Bantam Books (1982, 1995), Random House (1981)

Similar
  
Flowers for Algernon, The Milligan Wars, First Person Plural: My, The Fifth Sally, Algernon - Charlie and I: A

The Minds of Billy Milligan is a non-fiction novel portraying Billy Milligan, the first person in U.S. history acquitted of a major crime by pleading multiple-personality disorder. The novel was originally published in 1981, written by Hugo Award winning author Daniel Keyes, who received a bachelor's degree in psychology from Brooklyn College in 1950.

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The sequel entitled The Milligan Wars, was later published in Japan in 1994. According to the author, its release in the United States is tied to the release of the upcoming film adaption entitled The Crowded Room.

Won

  • 1986: Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Book by a Foreign Author
  • 1993: Seiun Award for Non-Fiction of the Year
  • Nominated

  • 1982: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime
  • References

    The Minds of Billy Milligan Wikipedia