A letter correspondence over many years between Aileen and her best friend from childhood Dawn was collated into a book, in the order the letters were sent.
Mixed into the letters were long essays about her life on the road which she asked Dawn to keep safe encase she ever wrote enough that she could start knocking it into an autobiography.
As I was reading it, I found her experiences of the time she lived through so fascinating that I wanted to save each one and see it in perspective to her other memories in the timeline of her life.
So that's what I've done here. And if it's useful in the future to anyone's creative pursuits, like writing non-fiction plays or graphic novels, essay reflections on her life, the 70s, or even fictional stories with characters based on Aileen, then all the better.
Download For Free
Download in various formats on my website:
https://activistjourneys.wordpress.com/the-unfinished-autobiography-of-aileen-wuornos/
Support the workers who made this possible
Send letters, cash and/or check donations of support to Dawn & Dave Botkins directly for Dawn's mental health support of Aileen from childhood to the end & her husband Dave's efforts in scanning and organizing all the letters and photographs:
Dawn Botkins
633 Elmwood Road
Fostoria
Michigan
48435
Buy a new hard-copy of Dear Dawn to support the editors and publishers for getting it into print and help justify all the workers they paid to help them along the way, like agents and essayists who contributed to the forward:
https://softskull.com/dd-product/dear-dawn/
