Authors: Debbie Nathan
26.
Author interview with Tom Davis, of Yonkers, NY, December 2009.
27.
FRS Box 37, File 1095, Tape 119.
28.
Ibid.
29.
FRS Box 37, Files 1078, 1097, Tape 142.
30.
FRS Box 37, File 1089, “Synopsis of Tape 15.”
31.
STERN.
32.
FRS Box 37, File 1089, “Synopsis of Tape 15.”
33.
All so-called diary material is from FRS Box 37, File 1080.
34.
Shirley Mason’s so-called diaries in FRS Box 37, File 1080, were viewed and analyzed by questioned-documents examiner Gerry LaPorte, of Reston, VA, in 2010. He concluded that the ink used was ballpoint and the material was written in 1945 or later. In 2009, questioned document examiner Peter Tytell, of New York City, viewed the diaries written in ink, as well as a typewritten set dated 1942. He concluded that the typewriter used to create that set was not manufactured until the early 1960s.
35.
Schreiber,
Sybil
, p. 11.
36.
Ibid., p. 198.
37.
Ibid., p. 156.
38.
Ibid., p. 138.
39.
Ibid., p. 156.
40.
Ibid., p. 160.
41.
Ibid., p. 37.
42.
Ibid., pp. 80–81.
43.
Ibid., pp. 196–198.
44.
Ibid., p. 325.
45.
STERN.
46.
Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, n.d., FRS Box 37, File 1100.
47.
For Regnery and Plotnick’s work on
Sybil
see Felicia Antonelli Holton, “Philosophy vs. money: a publishing house divided,”
Chicago Tribune
, 12 June 1977. About Plotnick rejecting the book at first, see FRS to Abelman, 5 January 1977, FRS Box 30, File 940.
48.
Schreiber,
Sybil
, p. 297.
49.
Ibid., pp. 339, 344.
50.
FRS to Cornelia Wilbur, 24 March 1972, FRS Box 37, File 1102.
51.
Dominick Abel to FRS, 24 November 1972, FRS Box 12, Files 294–295.
52.
Dominick Abel to FRS, 11 September 1972, FRS Box 12, File 294.
53.
Connie Wilbur to FRS, greeting card n.d., FRS Box 37, File 1100.
54.
For number of first-edition copies published, see Charlotte Phelan, “Flora has a good friend—‘Sybil,’”
Houston Post
, 16 September 1973, copy in FRS Box 12, File 283; for Warner promotional efforts, see FRS Box 13, Files 312 and 315; Box 12, File 296.
55.
Patricia Myrer to FRS, 19 April 1973, FRS Box 23, File 634.
CHAPTER 15
1.
Dick Cavett Show
, 14 and 15 May 1973. Copy archived at The Paley Center for Media, New York City.
2.
Patricia Myrer to FRS, 1 March 1973, FRS Box 23 File 634
3.
“James S. Gordon, “The many selves of Sybil,”
New York Times
, 17 June 1973.
4.
Time
, 30 June 1973, available online at <
www.time.com/time/magazine/ar ticle/0,9171,907646-2,00.html
>
5.
D.W. Harding, “Crazy mixed-up kids,”
New York Review of Books
, 14 June 1973.
6.
Nancy Ellis, “Sybil bizarre but true,”
Omaha World-Herald
, 15 July 1973.
7.
Author telephone interview with Flora Schreiber’s cousin Stanley Aronson, in Providence RI, January 2010. For Nobel Prize see FRS Box 13, File 317.
8.
Stanley Aronson interview, January 2010; FRS Box 9, File 225.
9.
FRS Box 37, File 1098.
10.
Reader letters all from FRS Box 12, Files 302, 303, 304.
11.
FRS Box 12, File 297, “Sybil Syndrome” film proposal.
12.
Sonya Rudikoff, “Of alternative selves and disturbing multiple personalities,”
Washington Post
, 20 July 1973.
13.
Delphine to FRS, FRS Box 12, File 303.
14.
Martin Kasindorf “Primal therapy this year’s rage,”
Boca Raton News
, 16 June 1971; Ivor Davis, “Scream like a child—Live like an adult,”
Pittsburgh Press
, 25 April 1971; Arthur Janov,
The Primal Scream
(New York: Perigee, 1970); Arthur Janov,
The Primal Revolution: Toward a Real World
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1972); Arthur Janov,
The Feeling Child
(New York: Simon and Schuster, 1973).
15.
For criticism of primal therapy, see
Gale Encyclopedia of Psychology
, available online at <
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_g2699/is_0005/ai_2699000587/
>; J. Cunningham, “Primal therapies—stillborn theories,” in C. Feltham, et al., eds.,
Controversies in Psychotherapy and Counselling
(London: Sage Publications, 1999), pp. 25–33. For John Lennon, see Jon Weiner,
Come Together: John Lennon in His Time
(Champaign: University of Illinois Press, 1991).
16.
For example, Ann McFeatters, “Child abuse found among rich, poor,”
Pitts-burgh Press
, 25 April 1973; “Child abuse: Doctor says grim figures a national disgrace,”
St. Petersburg
(FL)
Evening Independent
, 26 June 1973. Information about Mondale and child abuse legislation from Nelson,
Making an Issue of Child Abuse
. See also FRS copy of letter to Senator Mondale et al.; Harvey Plotnick to FRS; Walter Mondale to FRS, all in FRS Box 12, File 294.
17.
Reader letters are from FRS Box 12, Files 302, 303, 304.
18.
Publishers Weekly
, 23 September 1974. Copy in FRS Box 1, File 3.
19.
FRS Box 26, File 703.
CHAPTER 16
1.
Patrick McGilligan,
Backstory 2: Interviews with Screenwriters of the 1940s and 1950s
(Berkeley: University of California Press, 1977).
2.
Ibid.
3.
STERN.
4.
Ibid.
5.
Ibid.
6.
Ibid.
7.
Ibid., and
Examining Sybil
, from
Sybil: 30th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Collection
(Warner Brothers DVD, 2006).
8.
Examining Sybil
.
9.
Author telephone interview with Stewart Stern, of Seattle, WA, February 2009.
10.
STERN.
11.
Stewart Stern to Cornelia Wilbur, 14 May 1974, in STERN.
12.
Examining Sybil
, and author telephone interview with Stewart Stern.
13.
Cornelia Wilbur to Stewart Stern, 28 September 1974 and 4 October 1974, in STERN.
14.
Sybil: 30th Anniversary 2-Disc Special Collection.
15.
Ibid.
16.
Stewart Stern to Connie Wilbur, 11 November 1974, in STERN; “Comments of a Petathal [sic] Session December 1958,” FRS Box 37, File 1089.
17.
Cornelia Wilbur to Stewart Stern, 7 November 1974, in STERN.
18.
Stewart Stern to Cornelia Wilbur, 11 November 1974, in STERN.
19.
Cornelia Wilbur to Stewart Stern, 15 November 1974, in STERN.
20.
Sybil
teleplay draft script, in STERN and in FRS Box 26, File 699.
21.
FRS to Peter Dunne, 11 September 1975, FRS Box 23, File 637; FRS to Lawrence J. Friedman, 17 January 1975, FRS Box 12, File 283.
22.
FRS to B. Franklin Kamsler, 24 January 1975, FRS Box 23, File 637.
23.
Examining Sybil
, and author telephone interview with Stewart Stern.
24.
Scholastic Voice
and
Scholastic Voice Teacher’s Edition
, 24 February 1977 (Vol. 61, No. 12), copy in FRS Box, 1 File 4.
25.
Ibid., p. 7.
26.
Saturday Night Live
, 18 March 1978, available in
Saturday Night Live, The Complete Third Season
, 1977–1978, DVD (Universal Studios, released 2008).
CHAPTER 17
1.
Anita Weeks Bird to SAM, 20 August 1975, FRS Box 37, File 1099.
2.
Schreiber,
Sybil
, 1st ed., pp. 183–184.
3.
SAM to FM, 9 May 1973, DE.
4.
Author telephone interview with David Eichman, of Roseburg, OR, January 2011.
5.
Author telephone interview with Muriel Odden Coulter, of Tracy, MN, April 2009; author interview with Daniel Houlihan, of Mankato, MN, May 2008.
6.
Dolores Katz, “Sybil today: Brilliant and witty,”
Detroit Free Press
, 25 July 1973 (copy in FRS Box 12, File 283).
7.
SAM to FM, 30 May 1972; SAM to FM, October 1972, both DE.
8.
Schreiber,
Sybil
, pp. 264–265, 290.
9.
See FRS to Dominick Abel, 26 September 1973, FRS Box 12, File 294; B.
Franklin Kamsler to FRS, 28 September 1973 and 15 April 1974; all in FRS Box 30, File 939; FRS to Nancy Wechsler, 9 August 1973, FRS Box 37, File 1103.
10.
FRS to Dominick Abel, 26 September 1973, FRS Box 12, File 294; FRS to Nancy Wechsler, 9 August 1973, FRS Box 37, File 1103.
11.
Schreiber,
Sybil
, pp. 11–12.
12.
Author telephone interview with Albert J. Paris, Bullhead City, AZ, May 2008; FRS Box 24, File 686.
13.
FRS Box 30, Files 939 and 944; Box 24, File 686.
14.
Katz, “Sybil today.”
15.
Author interview with Jean Lane, in Portland OR, May 2008.
16.
Author interview with Dianne Morrow, in Lansdowne, PA, July 2009; Shirley Mason to FM, 16 December 1974, DE.
17.
All details about Shirley’s life with Connie in Lexington during this period are from author telephone and personal interviews with Dianne Morrow.
18.
See FRS to Nancy Wechsler, 13 March 1974, in FRS Box 13, File 315; Box 24, File 686; Box 30, File 944.
19.
Author telephone interview with Keith Brown’s niece Deborah Brown Kovac, of Bushnell, IL, November 2008.
20.
Dianne Morrow, interview.
21.
Author telephone interview with Monty Norris, of Oakley, CA., August 2009.
CHAPTER 18
1.
Information regarding Monty Norris is taken from author’s telephone interview with him at his residence in Oakley, CA, August 2009.
2.
Monty Norris, “Sybil: A shocked Dodge Center thinks she grew up there,” Minneapolis
Star-Tribune
, 27 August 1975.
3.
Ibid.
4.
Ibid., and handwritten book club report on
Sybil
by Pearl Lohrbach, n.d. but per contents written in summer 1975. Copy at Dodge Center, MN Public Library and in author’s possession.
5.
FRS to Lee Canning, 2 September 1975; “Author of Sybil defends reporter’s right of confidentiality against the press” (press release by FRS, n.d.). Both in FRS Box 37, File 1103.
6.
Harold Severson, “Dodge Center ‘mum’ over similarity to Sybil,”
Rochester (MN) Post Bulletin
, 24 September 1975. For date of Dessie Engbard’s death see Minnesota Death Certificates Index: <
http://people.mnhs.org
>
7.
Cornelia Wilbur to Stewart Stern, 19 September 1975, in STERN; Cornelia Wilbur to FRS, 6 April 1976, in FRS Box 13, File 315.
8.
Author telephone interview with Charlotte Gray, of Ottawa, Canada, May 2010.
9.
Charlotte Gray to FRS, 29 September 1975, FRS Box 12, File 297.