In 2014, Dorothy Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
22 Facts About Dorothy Allison
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Dorothy E Allison was born on April 11,1949, in Greenville, South Carolina, to Ruth Gibson Allison, who was 15 years old at the time.
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At the age of 12, Dorothy Allison told a relative about it, who told her mother.
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Dorothy Allison suffered mentally and physically, contracting gonorrhea that was not diagnosed and treated until she was in her 20s.
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Dorothy Allison was the first of her family to graduate from high school.
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In 1967, Dorothy Allison attended Florida Presbyterian College on a National Merit scholarship.
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Also around this time, Dorothy Allison severed all ties to her family until 1981.
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Dorothy Allison graduated in 1971 with a Bachelor of Arts in anthropology.
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Dorothy Allison held a wide variety of jobs before gaining any success as a writer.
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Dorothy Allison worked as a salad girl, a maid, a nanny, and a substitute teacher.
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Dorothy Allison wrote about her life experiences, including the abuse by her stepfather, dealing with poverty, and her lust for women.
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Dorothy Allison would go on to publish another novel and two collections of poetry and short stories.
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In 1998, Dorothy Allison founded The Independent Spirit Award to support writers who help sustain small presses and independent bookstores.
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In 2006, Dorothy Allison was the writer in residence at Columbia College in Chicago.
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In 2007, Dorothy Allison announced that she was working on a new novel entitled She Who, to be published by Riverhead Books.
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Dorothy Allison held a three-month residency at Emory University in Atlanta in 2008 as the Bill and Carol Fox Center Distinguished Visiting Professor.
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In fall 2009, Dorothy Allison was The McGee Professor and writer in residence at Davidson College, in North Carolina.
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Dorothy Allison's influences include Flannery O'Connor, James Baldwin, Jewelle Gomez, Toni Morrison, Bertha Harris, and Audre Lorde.
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Dorothy Allison says The Bluest Eye by Morrison helped her to write about incest.
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Dorothy Allison says that the early Feminist movement changed her life.
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In 2007, Dorothy Allison was elected to the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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Dorothy Allison didn't write for approval, she wrote to survive.