This is the end of TFA:<p>> <i>Emerson sees Sparks chiefly as an impostor, but she comes across as a true believer, both in evil and in her capacity to combat it by scaring teen-agers straight.</i><p>Imposter vs. True Believer: evil schemer or naive righteous soccer mom...<p>Mmm... Or maybe she was... an artist?!<p>I find it quite shocking and incredible that still today, she's casually dismissed as a fabricator. Every fiction is a fabrication. That's what artists do; that's the original meaning of the word "poetry": to make [0].<p>The fact that publishers decided to market that fiction as a true testimonial is irrelevant. (It is mentioned in the article that the "impostor"/anonymous part was the idea of the publisher, and that Sparks only reluctantly agreed.)<p>It's possible her ultimate motive was to save teenagers from the perils of drugs, but in the process she created works that obviously resonated with a lot of people. How hard would it be to respect her a little.<p>[0] <a href="https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of-the-word-poet" rel="nofollow">https://www.merriam-webster.com/words-at-play/the-history-of...</a>