Flora Rheta Schreiber

{{short description|American journalist}}

Flora Rheta Schreiber (April 24, 1918 – November 3, 1988)Special Collections, database. 2020. "[https://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/ld.php?content_id=11565011 The Papers of Flora Rheta Schreiber 1916–1988]." Lloyd Sealy Library. New York: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 13 May 2020. was an American journalist and the author of the 1973 bestseller Sybil. For many years, she was also an English instructor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice.

Her bestselling book, Sybil (1973), tells the story of a woman (identified years later as Shirley Ardell Mason) who had a dissociative identity disorder and allegedly 16 different personalities. The name Sybil Isabel Dorsett was used to cover Mason's identity, as she insisted on the protection of her privacy. Schreiber later wrote The Shoemaker, a book documenting the true story of Joseph Kallinger, a serial killer who was diagnosed with paranoid schizophrenia.

Schreiber's papers are housed in the Special Collections unit at Lloyd Sealy Library of John Jay College.Special Collections. 5 May 2020. "[https://guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/c.php?g=288337&p=1922866 Manuscript Collections]." Lloyd Sealy Library. New York: John Jay College of Criminal Justice. Retrieved 13 May 2020. The collection is a comprehensive documentation of her life and career.