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Dorothy Allison

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Dorothy Allison is a bestselling author of novels, short stories, and poetry, including Bastard Out of Carolina, Cavedweller, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Trash: Short Stories, and The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980–1990. In 1995, Allison’s essay collection, Skin: Talking About Sex, Class & Literature, was awarded the Lambda Literary Award for Lesbian Studies and the American Library Association Stonewall Award. Allison received multiple Lambda Literary Awards for Trash and Cavedweller, and Publishing Triangle’s Ferro-Grumley Award for Bastard Out of Carolina, which was a finalist for the National Book Award, and the basis for the film of the same name. Allison has been the subject of many profiles and a short documentary film of her life, entitled Two or Three Things but Nothing for Sure. She lives in California with her partner and their son.    

Dorothy Allison Books

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Crooked Letter i

B. Andrew Plant
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Skin

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Novel Ideas

Barbara Shoup
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Bastard Out of Carolina

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Trash

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Cavedweller

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Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

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