Dorothy Allison
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born
April 11, 1949
in The United States
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(This is an account of remarks I made at AWP in Chicago February 14th, 2009 (Valentine's Day) on the panel on Smart Women and publishing. As is so often the case, I did not actually deliver the talk I had prepared to deliver at AWP—though I drew from that talk in my remarks. I had to cut it by half and reorganize it when time ran short, so some of what I did will be lost forever, but some of it .....
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Bastard Out of Carolina  4.02 avg rating — 12,272 ratings
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1992
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Cavedweller  3.63 avg rating — 1,780 ratings
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Trash 4.01 avg rating — 1,536 ratings
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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 4.01 avg rating — 1,307 ratings
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Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature 4.20 avg rating — 627 ratings
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1994
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Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure 3.93 avg rating — 255 ratings
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1995
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The Women Who Hate Me Poetry 1980-1990 3.86 avg rating — 138 ratings
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1983
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Best of Tin House: Stories 3.94 avg rating — 47 ratings
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2006
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Catherine Opie: American Photographer by Dorothy Allison, Jennifer Blessing, Nat Trotman 4.36 avg rating — 11 ratings
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2008
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A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 3.62 avg rating — 8 ratings
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2000
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“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina
“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is that if we are not beautiful to each other, we cannot know beauty in any form.”
― Dorothy Allison
― Dorothy Allison
“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
― Dorothy Allison
― Dorothy Allison
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