The Minds of Billy Milligan explained

The Minds of Billy Milligan
Author:	Daniel Keyes
Country:	United States
Genre:	Biography
Publisher:	Random House (1981) Bantam Books (1982, 1995)
Release Date:	October 1981
Media Type:	Print (hardcover & paperback)
Pages:	374 (1981) 426 (1982,1995)
Isbn:	0-3945-1943-4
Oclc:	7574826

The Minds of Billy Milligan is a 1981 non-fiction novel by Hugo Award-winning author Daniel Keyes. It tells the story of Billy Milligan, the first person in U.S. history acquitted of a major crime by pleading dissociative identity disorder.^[1]

A sequel, The Milligan Wars,^[2] was published in Japan in 1994.

Awards

Won

• 1986: Kurd Lasswitz Award for Best Book by a Foreign Author^[3]
• 1993: Seiun Award for Non-Fiction of the Year^[4]

Nominated

• 1982: Edgar Award for Best Fact Crime^[5]

Adaptation

The book inspired the 2023 Apple TV+ miniseries The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland and Amanda Seyfried.

Notes and References

1. Web site: 30 years later, multiple-personality case still fascinating . The Columbus Dispatch . 2015-10-15 . dead . https://archive.today/20120731110636/http://www.columbusdispatch.com/live/content/local_news/stories/2007/10/28/BILLY.ART_ART_10-28-07_A1_EV89AGB.html?sid=101 . 2012-07-31 .
2. Book: Keyes, Daniel . ビリー・ミリガンと23の棺 = The milligan wars . 早川書房 . 1994-01-01 . 東京 . 4-15-207863-4 . Japanese . registration .
3. Web site: KLP 1986 Preisträger . . 2015-10-15.
4. Web site: sfadb: Seiun Awards 1993 . www.sfadb.com . 2015-10-15.
5. Web site: Edgar Award Winners and Nominees Database . www.theedgars.com . 2015-10-15.