The Minds of Billy Milligan
A True Story of Multiple Personality
The inspiration for the streaming series The Crowded Room, starring Tom Holland • From the acclaimed author of Flowers for Algernon comes the shocking true story of a man battling multiple personality disorder.
“An absorbing, often heart-rending exploration of the human mind.”—Cosmopolitan
Billy Milligan can be anyone he wants to be . . . except himself.
Billy Milligan was a man tormented by twenty-four distinct personalities battling for supremacy over his body—a battle that culminated when he awoke in jail, arrested for the kidnap and rape of three women. In a landmark trial, Billy was acquitted of his crimes by reason of insanity caused by multiple personality—the first such court decision in history—bringing to public light the most remarkable and harrowing case…