SURVIVOR · EXPERT · BESTSELLING AUTHOR
“Dawn was and is an inspiration to me, as she will be to you. There is nothing in this world we cannot overcome, if we trust in love. It’s a healing message for all the women and girls in the world who have not yet found their strength. Dawn’s story is a miracle. She is a miracle. I am proud to know her.”
Dawn's story is told in her memoir, The Road Through Wonderland: Surviving John Holmes, and the film, Wonderland, in which she is portrayed by actress Kate Bosworth; John Holmes is played by Val Kilmer. Dawn was also filmed to tell her story in the 2011 Travel Channel's Hidden City Crime Files—The Wonderland Murders and the 2013 Investigation Discovery (ID) Channel's Poisoned Passions—Pornstar Pedophile.
THE ROAD THROUGH WONDERLAND:
SURVIVING JOHN HOLMES
Medallion Press
Author: Dawn Schiller
Foreword: Val Kilmer and Kate Bosworth
In this interview, Dawn explains how the movie led to the decision to write her memoir.
“Dawn has survived. This book is a testimony to her will to overcome. As we wrote, shot and cut ‘Wonderland,’ she allowed us absolute transparency on a darkness few ever experience. She understood hers was a story to be told, not just as a cautionary tale against the horrors of violence and abuse, but as a beacon leading others in her predicament out of peril. This book is her triumph, but the narrative weaved within these pages is a true nightmare that will haunt you, as it did me, for years.”
