Dorothy Allison
A feminist and a working-class storyteller who writes to change the world, Dorothy Allison frankly tackles gender, class, violence, and sexual orientation. During the 1970s and early 1980s, she was an award -winning editor and writer for early feminist, lesbian, and gay journals. With her first published work, The Women Who Hate Me, Allison honored and scrutinized her class background and sexuality, and at the same time outraged mainstream feminists by lauding promiscuity, sadomasochism, and butch-femme roles. Allison won the strongest mainstream praise for her largely autobiographical novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, a bestseller and a finalist for the National Book Award. Her second novel, Cavedweller, was a New York Times bestseller. Both have been adapted into film. “I don’t want to simplify when I write,” says Allison. “I want people there with their warts on. I want you to love them even when you hate them.”
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