Dorothy Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina, USA. She is a writer, known for Bastard Out of Carolina (1996), Cavedweller (2004) and 2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure (1997).
When I was growing up, I always read horror books, while my sister read romance novels. My sister became unmarried and pregnant during high school, and she kept saying, 'This wasn't supposed to happen! Why is this happening to me?' Someone should have given her another book to read. (February 1996, "We Are Not Monsters: It's Time To Talk About Sex," University of Maine at Farmington)
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"I think I would have died if there hadn't been the women's movement. It gave me a vision that I could do something different, and it gave me an understanding that I wasn't a monster, or sport, or a betrayer of my family. And it gave me a source of joy. It told me that being a lesbian was not a crime or a sin, that I could be happy, and that I could do something of use." (San Francisco Focus, December 23, 1996)
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Fact
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Legally blind in one eye.
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With her partner Alix Layman, a printer who plays trombone in an all-women's swing band, she has a son, Wolf Michael.
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Her 1988 collection of short stories, Trash, won two Lambda Literary Awards, for Best Small Press book and Best Lesbian book, in 1989.
Writer
Title
Year
Status
Character
Cavedweller
2004
novel
Bastard Out of Carolina
1996
book
Self
Title
Year
Status
Character
2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure
1997
Documentary short
Herself
Known for movies
Bastard Out of Carolina (1996) as Writer
Cavedweller (2004) as Writer
2 or 3 Things But Nothing for Sure (1997) as Herself
$1.6 Million
