Allison

Dorothy Allison (1949-) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. She is especially known for writing Bastard Out of Carolina (1992).
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