In the years since the Big Book was first published, AA’s 12-step program has been adopted by millions of people battling a wide range of addictions, from drugs to food to sex to e-mail.

After being hidden for 70 years, the edits of the Alcoholics Anonymous Big Book, entitled "The Book That Started It All," reveal a previously unknown discussion about how overtly to reference God ...

Alcoholics Anonymous (A.A.) has announced the publication of the Plain Language Big Book: A Tool for Reading Alcoholics Anonymous, a new resource designed to make the Twelve Step recovery program ...

The book’s copyright application, filed April 19, 1939, lists William G. (“Bill”) Wilson, the co-founder of Alcoholics Anonymous, as the sole author.

In 1939, a book offering hopeless drunks a spiritual path to recovery through 12 steps was released by a fledgling fellowship of alcoholics. More than 27 million copies of the so-called Big Book ...

(RNS) — The book gives daily reflection exercises, drawing on AA's famous 12-step method and portions of Jewish Scripture.

Alcoholics Anonymous is demanding the return of its 1939 original manuscript describing the "Twelve Step" program of recovery from alcoholism.

LOS ANGELES (AP) — The founding document of Alcoholics Anonymous, known to adherents as the “Big Book,” sold at auction Saturday for $2.4 million to billionaire and Indianapolis Colts owner ...