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Dorothy Allison bears a striking resemblance to the character Bone in her runaway bestseller Bastard Out of Carolina. She was born into poverty in the Deep South, an illegitimate child, physically and sexually abused by her stepfather. Although she once called her own upbringing "a lot meaner" than Bone's, she overcame great odds to break out of a devastating family cycle of poverty and abuse. Instead of staying in the backwater town of Greenville, South Carolina, where she was raised in the 1950s, she left and went on to write several critically acclaimed books.

Dorothy Allison was the first member of her family to graduate from high school. She performed so well that she received a National Merit Scholarship, which enabled her to attend Florida Presbyterian College. After earning a B.A., she continued her education in New York at the New School of Social Research. During the 1960s she became active in the women's movement and wrote and edited for gay and women's publications. Since then she has taught at Florida State, Rutgers, Wesleyan, and the San Francisco Art Institute and has done extensive counseling work with the survivors of abuse. She now lives in Guerneville, California, with her partner, Alix Layman, and their son.
AWARDS

National Book Award Finalist (1992)
Best Small Press Book (1989)
Best Lesbian Book (1989)
Lambda Literary Award (1989)

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Cavedweller (1998)
Two or Three Things I Know for Sure (1995)
Skin (1994)
The Women Who Hate Me (1994)
Bastard Out of Carolina (1992)
Trash (1988)

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