作者
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1918年四月24日～
1988年十一月3日)
施賴勃是美國《科學文摘》的精神病學編輯，寫過幾篇精神病學論文。1962年秋天的一個夜晚，她應約與一位名叫科妮利亞·B.威爾伯（Cornelia B. Wilbur，1908～1992）的心理分析女醫生會面。會面時，施賴勃初次見到後來她基於保護隱私的原因，稱之為“西碧爾”的女人——雪莉·梅森（Shirley Ardell Mason，1923～1998)，一個哥倫比亞大學的研究生。
Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988), an American journalist, was the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil, the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who suffered from dissociative identity disorder. Ms. Schreiber was an English instructor at the John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Her earlier book was Your Child's Speech. Her last book The Shoemaker was the true story of a mass murderer who suffered from schizophrenia.