Dorothy Allison
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born
April 11, 1949
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female
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The United States
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Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian
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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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"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
"Two or three things I know for sure, and one is that I would rather go naked than wear the coat the world has made for me."
— Dorothy Allison
— Dorothy Allison
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