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  <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[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.

Allison's first novel, the semi-autobiographical Bastard Out of Carolina, was published in 1992 and was one of five finalists for the 1992 National Book Award. 

Allison founded The Independent Spirit Award in 1998, a prize given annually to an individual whose work within the small press and independent bookstore circuit has helped sustain that enterprise.


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  <title><![CDATA[Bastard Out of Carolina]]></title>
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  <average_rating>4.07</average_rating>
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  <published>1992</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Cavedweller: A Novel]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <published>1998</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Trash]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.01</average_rating>
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  <published>1988</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Two or Three Things I Know for Sure]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <average_rating>4.24</average_rating>
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  <published>1994</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <title><![CDATA[The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.84</average_rating>
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  <published>1983</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Catherine Opie: American Photographer]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Nat Trotman]]></name>
      <link><![CDATA[http://www.goodreads.com/author/show/201330]]></link>
    </author>
        <author>
      <name><![CDATA[Jennifer Blessing]]></name>
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  <published>2008</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Reader's Guide to the Works of Dorothy Allison: Cavedweller, Bastard Out of Carolina, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <average_rating>3.80</average_rating>
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  <published>2000</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[Bastard out of Carolina]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[Dorothy Allison]]></name>
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  <published>2005</published>  
  
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