![]() ![]() Her novel Cavedweller (1998) was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. Her best-selling novel Bastard Out of Carolina (1992) was a finalist for the National Book Award and has been translated into more than a dozen languages, as well as made into a feature film. Her story collection Trash (1988) won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association’s Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. ![]() Then you can make people seem human.”Īllison is the author of the poetry collection The Women Who Hate Me: Poems 1980–1990 (1991). The only thing you can control is to create as full a portrait as possible. If you're trying to control what happens, you really don't have a whole lot of chance. In an interview while she was Zale Writer in Residence at Tulane University, Allison stated, “If you're trying to be safe, you got no business writing. ![]() Influenced by the 1970s feminist movement, Allison’s raw, frequently brutal work explores themes of class, sexuality, and abuse. 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. Poet and prose writer Dorothy Allison was raised in Greenville, South Carolina, by her young single mother. ![]()
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