1. Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteenyear-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. http://www.dorothyallison.net/

Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the first child of a fifteen-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner Alix and her teenage son, Wolf Michael, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian. Awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, Allison is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. The first member of her family to graduate from high school, Allison attended Florida Presbyterian college on a National Merit Scholarship and in 1979, studied anthropology at the New School for Social Research. The Women Who Hate Me, was published with Long Haul Press in 1983. Her short story collection, Trash (1988) was published by Firebrand Books. Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards and the American Library Association Prize for Lesbian and Gay Writing. Allison says that the early Feminist movement changed her life. "It was like opening your eyes under water. It hurt, but suddenly everything that had been dark and mysterious became visible and open to change." However, she admits, she would never have begun to publish her stories

2. Dorothy Allison - Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American lesbian writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers. She was raised in Greenville http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dorothy_Allison

Dorothy Allison From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Jump to: navigation search Dorothy Allison Born April 11 Occupation writer, poet, novelist Nationality American Subjects class struggle child and sexual abuse , women, lesbianism feminism , and family Debut works Bastard Out of Carolina Website http://www.dorothyallison.net Dorothy Allison (born April 11 ) is an American lesbian writer , speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers . She was raised in Greenville, South Carolina , the first child of her 15-year-old, unwed mother. She is legally blind in her right eye. Contents Biography Bibliography Filmography References ... edit Biography In the early 1970s, Allison attended Florida Presbyterian College (now Eckerd College ) on a National Merit scholarship . While in college, she joined the women's movement by way of a feminist collective . She credits the " militant feminists " for encouraging her decision to write. After graduating with a B.A. in anthropology , she did graduate studies in anthropology at Florida State University and the New School for Social Research Themes in Allison's work include class struggle child and sexual abuse , women, lesbianism feminism , and family.

3. Identity Theory | The Narrative Thread - Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She has published two novels, Bastard Out Of Carolina—a National Book Award finalist in 1992—and http://www.identitytheory.com/printme/allisonprint.html

Dorothy Allison Author of Bastard out of Carolina talks with Robert Birnbaum Posted: October 21, 2002 All photos by Red Diaz / Duende Publishing Dorothy Allison was born in Greenville, South Carolina. She has published two novels, Bastard Out Of Carolina Cavedweller . She has also published a memoir, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure , an anthology of essays, Skin: Talking about Sex, Class and Literature and a collection of poems, The Women Who Hate Me Trash , featuring some of Allison's earliest stories, with a one additional new story and a new introduction, "Stubborn Girls and Mean Stories," has recently been republished. She regularly teaches classes, workshops and seminars at universities around the nation and is a member of the board of PEN International. She lives with her family in Northern California. She is at work on her newest novel. Robert Birnbaum: I've met a lot of people from North Carolina, but I haven't met anybody from South Carolina. Dorothy Allison: (laughs) Never met Pat Conroy, huh?

4. Dorothy Allison@Everything2.com Though she had enjoyed a cult following among the lesbian community since 1983, when her first book of poetry was published, Dorothy Allison entered the http://everything2.com/index.pl?node=Dorothy Allison

5. Dorothy Allison - Trailer - Showtimes - Cast - Movies - New York Times A biography and related information about Dorothy Allison. http://movies.nytimes.com/person/1105/Dorothy-Allison

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7. Dorothy Allison Biography And Summary Dorothy Allison biography with 112 pages of profile on Dorothy Allison sourced from encyclopedias, critical essays, summaries, and research journals. http://www.bookrags.com/Dorothy_Allison

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Dorothy Allison From Wikiquote Jump to: navigation search Dorothy Allison (born 1949) is an American author. This article on an author is a stub . You can help Wikiquote by edit Sourced I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature edit External link Wikipedia has an article about: Dorothy Allison Retrieved from " http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Dorothy_Allison Categories Author stubs Feminists ... Novelists Views Page Discussion Edit History Personal tools Log in / create account Navigation Main Page Community portal Village pump Recent changes ... Contact Wikiquote Wikiquote links People Literary works Proverbs Films ... Categories Search Toolbox What links here Related changes Upload file Special pages ... Permanent link This page was last modified 07:55, 24 March 2007. All text is available under the terms of the GNU Free Documentation License Wikiquote is run by the Wikimedia Foundation, Inc. , a US-registered 501(c)(3) tax-deductible nonprofit charity. ... About Wikiquote

11. Being And Writing: Tips From Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison was amazing. Warm, funny, smart, realall you d wish for. She gave an impassioned speech, urging us all to tell the stories that won t http://beingandwriting.blogspot.com/2007/10/tips-from-dorothy-allison.html

skip to main skip to sidebar Tuesday, October 9, 2007 Tips from Dorothy Allison Dorothy Allison was amazing. Warm, funny, smart, realall you'd wish for. She gave an impassioned speech, urging us all to tell the stories that won't leave us alone, the ones we *must* tell. (I don't think it's a coincidence that all weekend I spent spilling out page after page about my parents.) She said rage and revenge are good emotion to spark a story, but they won't sustain the work. Here are a few others things she said: * The Missouri Review is publishing the best fiction these days. * She encourages writers to publish with small presses (she did for 20 years before Bastard Out of Carolina hit the big time). * (quoting Kevin, who took notesthanks, Kevin): "She did much of her own publicity for Bastard by doing a bookstore tour in multiple cities. She feels this effort helped the book take-off. She went to on her own train ticket, sleeping on friends' sofas. She feels without this, the book would have not done nearly as well. The publicity department didn't help at all; indeed she was at risk, because the bookstores charge the publishers for these evenings. By the time the bills started coming in it was a hit, so she was okay, but she otherwise might have been personally liable as she'd gone out on her own. She said she'd 'cashed the ad check,' . . . to pay for her expenses, and she 'raced with her head down for six weeks,' which jump-started the novel's success. Later, when the book was a hit, for the paperback, they set up a very posh reading series, where they kept her at great hotels, but in the beginning she was all on her own."

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13. Salon | The Salon Interview: Dorothy Allison Laura Miller interviews dorothy allison, author of Bastard Out of Carolina and Cavedweller http://www.salon.com/books/int/1998/03/cov_si_31intb.html

T A B L E T A L K What recent books will be future classics? Make your picks in the Books area of Table Talk A L S O T O D A Y The Salon Interview: Ian McEwan By Dwight Garner R E C E N T L Y Nadine Gordimer By Dwight Garner P.D. James By Jennifer Reese Stanley Crouch By Jonathan Broder Martin Amis By Laura Miller Toni Morrison By Zia Jaffrey INTERVIEW ARCHIVE R E V I E W S The Short History of a Prince By Jane Hamilton A meditative novel, set in Wisconsin, about a former ballet dancer trying to come to terms with his new life [ T H E S A L O N I N T E R V I E W ] Dorothy Allison DOROTHY ALLISON TALKS ABOUT WORKING-CLASS GUILT, THE FILM VERSION OF "BASTARD OUT OF CAROLINA" AND COMING OUT AS A SCIENCE-FICTION FAN. BY LAURA MILLER I t's a toss-up which quality Dorothy Allison has in greater measure strength or charm. She's needed plenty of both to fight her way out of the desperate circumstances into which she was born. Her riveting, semi-autobiographical first novel, "Bastard Out of Carolina," portrays a dirt-poor Southern childhood in a family notorious for its violent, hard-drinking men and trouble-prone women. For Allison, these crushing circumstances were intensified by a physically and sexually abusive stepfather and, eventually, the discovery that she was a lesbian. She left home and devoted years of her life to feminist activism and collectives, although her refusal to toe the line sexually (or to keep quiet about her penchant for what she calls "rough trade") often made her an outcast there as well. She also began to write stories and essays whose fierce eloquence instantly gripped anyone lucky enough to discover them in alternative newspapers and books published by the small press Firebrand.

14. Interview With Dorothy Allison This year the program committee had invited awardwinning novelist dorothy allison, who is most famous for her novel Bastard Out of Carolina, to be the Zale http://www.tulane.edu/~wc/zale/allison/allison.html

An Interview with Dorothy Allison This interview was conducted as part of the annual Zale Writer in Residence Program at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women at Tulane University in November 1995. This year the program committee had invited award-winning novelist Dorothy Allison, who is most famous for her novel Bastard Out of Carolina , to be the Zale Writer-in-Residence. Dorothy Allison's work is securely located on the borders of southern and working-class literature, with deep roots in feminist and lesbian-feminist activism and politics. Dorothy Allison is the author five books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction and the winner of numerous literary awards. She grew up in Greenville, South Carolina and Florida and now lives with her partner, son, and dogs in northern California. This interview was conducted by Susanne Dietzel, a Visiting Scholar at the Newcomb College Center for Research on Women and doctoral candidate in American Studies and Feminist Studies at the University of Minnesota. She is now a Visiting Assistant Professor of Women's Studies at Tulane University. This interview was transcribed by Kelly Donald and Michelle Attebury, and (only slightly) edited by Susanne Dietzel.

15. Curve: Dorothy Allison: The Value Of Redemption dorothy allison says it astonishes her when people pay attention to our storiesqueer stories, workingclass stories, stories of the abused, despised and http://www.curvemag.com/Detailed/5.html

Subscribe Shop Advertise Commerce ... big issues : Dorothy Allison: The Value of Redemption Dorothy Allison: The Value of Redemption Written by: Kathleen Wilkinson Dorothy Allison says it astonishes her when people pay attention to our storiesqueer stories, working-class stories, stories of the abused, despised and disenfranchised. "The world don't wanna know...it's fucking America." For Allison, it is the poor and reviled women of small Southern towns that beckon her. Still many of her fans want her to write stories about more familiar lesbian characters. "I'm completely aware that people would like me to write a love story. It's just that when I write a love story you probably are not goin' to be able to tell. I don't believe in romance in that sense. I actually believe romance is almost as much work as raising children." Allison, 48, is committed to bothshe has a son, Wolf, and a 10-year relationship with her partner Alix. "I'm the longest married woman in my family. I guess it was serious when we put them rings on. I put one in her left nipple and she put one in my pussy and ever since then we felt like we owned a piece of each other." But her life in the Russian River area of Northern California and now San Francisco has not been the focus of Allison's novels so far. "It's an illusion that writers have a lot of choice about what they write," she explains. "Your stories are your stories. They're the only ones you can really tell, and if you try telling ones the world would like you tell, you'll do it badly."

16. Glbtq >> Literature >> Allison, Dorothy E. South Carolina native dorothy allison refuses to write didactic or romantic illustrations of the lesbian experience, focusing instead on the sheer survival http://www.glbtq.com/literature/allison_de.html

Encyclopedia Discussion Forgot Your Password? Not a Member Yet? JOIN TODAY. IT'S FREE! Advertising Opportunities Terms of Service Alpha Index: A-B C-F G-K L-Q ... T-Z Subjects: A-B C-E F-L M-Z Allison, Dorothy E. (b. 1949) Dorothy Allison refuses to write didactic or romantic illustrations of the lesbian experience, focusing instead on the sheer survival of her lesbian characters in the hostile environment of Southern working-class families. Allison was born in 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina, the setting for her first collection of short stories, Trash (1988), and her highly acclaimed novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992). She was graduated from Florida Presbyterian College in 1971 and subsequently earned her M.A. in anthropology at the New School for Social Research. Sponsor Message. The Women Who Hate Me , a volume of poetry, appeared in 1983; it was expanded and reissued in 1991. Trash won two Lambda Literary Awards, for Best Small Press Book, and Best Lesbian Book, in 1989. Bastard Out of Carolina was a finalist for the National Book Award in 1992.

17. PAL: Dorothy Allison (1949-) dorothy allison is a South Carolina writer who gained popularity in the 1980s with her novels (Bastard out of Carolina, Cavedwellers) and short stories http://web.csustan.edu/english/reuben/pal/chap10/allison.html

PAL: Perspectives in American Literature - A Research and Reference Guide - An Ongoing Project Paul P. Reuben (To send an email, please click on my name above.) Chapter 10: Dorothy Allison (1949-) DA: Biography Fiction: DA Primary Works Selected Bibliography 1980-Present ... Home Page Source: Berry College The information below is contributed by Patricia Bostian , Central Piedmont Community College Dorothy Allison is a South Carolina writer who gained popularity in the 1980s with her novels ( Bastard out of Carolina, Cavedwellers ) and short stories ( Trash ). Her work has been praised for its open exploration of issues of homosexuality, class, and gender. Primary Works The Women Who Hate Me . Long Haul Pr., 1983. Trash . Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Books, 1988. PS3551 .L453 T7 The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990. nd ed. Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Pr., 1991. Bastard out of Carolina . New York: Dutton, 1992. PS3551 .L453 B37 Skin: Talking about Sex, Class, and Literature . Ithaca, NY: Firebrand Pr., 1994. PS3551 .L453 Z475 Two or Three Things I Know for Sure . NY: Dutton: 1995. Introduction.

18. In These Times | Notes To A Young Feminist dorothy allison is the author of Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Two or Three Things I Finding dorothy allison in 1993 was a revelation and a joy. http://www.inthesetimes.com/comments.php?id=712_0_1_0_C

19. In One Of Two Tanner Lectures, Dorothy Allison Considers The Meaning Of Freedom: When dorothy allison was 17 and a freshman at a small liberal arts college in Florida, a professor posed this ethical dilemma to a core course in which she http://news-service.stanford.edu/news/2001/may23/dorothyallison-523.html

Stanford Report, May 23, 2001 In one of two Tanner lectures, Dorothy Allison considers the meaning of freedom BY JOHN SANFORD You're in a lifeboat. The wind is rising. The sea is rising. There are 19 others in the boat, too, but it can only hold 12 safely. What do you do? When Dorothy Allison was 17 and a freshman at a small liberal arts college in Florida, a professor posed this ethical dilemma to a core course in which she was enrolled with about 170 other first-year students. Dorothy Allison, author of the award-winning novel Bastard Out of Carolina , delivered two talks on campus last week as part of the 2001 Tanner Lectures in Human Values. Photo: L.A. Cicero The class was held in the school's chapel. The silver-haired professor walked back and forth in front of the students: "'Time to make some decisions! Who goes over? Who stays in? You've got to calculate,'" Allison said, imitating him. Some of her classmates were making lists.

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