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American writer Dorothy Allison at the Miami Book Fair International 2011. Wikimedia Commons.
(1949-) Dorothy Allison is a writer from Greenville, SC, whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She is known for her book Bastard Out of Carolina.