Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison | |
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Allison at the 2011 Miami Book Fair | |
| Born | April 11, 1949 Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. |
| Died | November 6, 2024 (aged 75) Guerneville, California, U.S. |
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| Education | Florida Presbyterian College (BA) Florida State University The New School for Social Research (MA) |
| Subject | class struggle, child and sexual abuse, women, lesbianism, feminism, and family |
| Literary movement | Feminism |
| Spouse |
Alix Layman (died 2022) |
| Children | 1 |
| Website | |
| dorothyallison.com (archived) | |
Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.