Dorothy Allison
Sign in to saveAmerican writer, poet, novelist, critic (1949–2024)
Film & TV
Known for
- A Fortunate Life — Grandma Carr1986
- Jack the Ripper — Judith1958
via TMDB
Key facts
- Born
- ( 1949-04-11 ) April 11, 1949, Greenville, South Carolina , U.S.
- Died
- November 6, 2024 (2024-11-06) (aged 75), Guerneville, California , U.S.
- Occupation
- Writer poet novelist
- Education
- Florida Presbyterian College ( BA ), Florida State University , The New School for Social Research ( MA )
- Subject
- class struggle , child and sexual abuse , women, lesbianism, feminism , and family
- Literary movement
- Feminism
- Spouse
- Alix Layman ( died 2022 )
via Wikipedia infobox
Wikidata facts
- Instance of
- human
- Given name
- Dorothy
- Family name
- Allison
- Gender
- female
- Citizenship
- United States
- Place of birth
- Greenville
- Place of death
- Guerneville
- Occupation
- anthropologist
- Languages spoken
- English language
- Image
- Allison, Dorothy.jpg
- Number of children
- 1
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- date of birth
- 1949-04-11
- start of work period
- 1982-00-00
- Commons category
- Dorothy Allison
- on focus list of Wikimedia project
- Art+Feminism
- manner of death
- natural causes
- influenced by
- Toni Morrison
- writing language
- English language
- cause of death
- cancer
- date of death
- 2024-11-06
- name in native language
- Dorothy Allison
- sexual orientation
- lesbianism
- web feed URL
- aleksruns.com/feed
Sources (8)
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Encyclopedic overview
Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 6, 2024) was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Early life
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