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Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards.
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- April 11, 1949 (age 74), Greenville, South Carolina, U.S.
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60. birthday 11 April 2009. Biography • Quotes • Weblinks • Literature & Sources. Describing herself as a feminist and a working class storyteller who writes to change the world, Dorothy Allison is an accomplished writer and speaker who frankly tackles gender, class, violence, and sexual orientation.
Genre. Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian. edit data. Dorothy Allison is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Themes in Allison's work include class struggle, child and sexual abuse, women, lesbianism, feminism, and family.
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Nov 7, 2017 · An Essential Novel About Poverty, Bigotry, and Sexual Abuse, Twenty-Five Years Later. Nearly all of Dorothy Allison’s characters tell stories as way of explaining their world. Photograph by...
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Poet and prose writer Dorothy Allison was raised in Greenville, South Carolina, by her young single mother. The first in her family to graduate from high school, Allison earned a BA at Florida Presbyterian College and also studied at the New School for Social Research in New York City. Influenced…
Dorothy Allison has 68 books on Goodreads with 156587 ratings. Dorothy Allison’s most popular book is Bastard Out of Carolina.