Dorothy Allison
Sign in to saveAmerican writer, poet, novelist, critic (1949–2024)
Person · Open Library
- Born
- 1949-04-11
- Died
- 2024-11-06
- Works
- 28
Top works
- Tin House
- Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
- Crooked letter i
- Ghosts in Gaslight, Monsters in Steam (Gay City)
- L'Histoire de Bone
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Listeners · Last.fm
- Listeners
- 14
- Total plays
- 55
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Recent publications · Crossref
5 total works indexed
- Geant4—a simulation toolkit
· 2003 · cited 21,254x
- DrugBank 5.0: a major update to the DrugBank database for 2018
· 2017 · cited 7,548x
- Highly Parallel Genome-wide Expression Profiling of Individual Cells Using Nanoliter Droplets
· 2015 · cited 7,086x
- The representative concentration pathways: an overview
· 2011 · cited 6,447x
- <i>Review</i>
: Knowledge Management and Knowledge Management Systems: Conceptual Foundations And Research Issues1,2
· 2001 · cited 6,083x
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Quotes
- “I do not write about nice people. I am not nice people. Neither is anyone I have ever cared deeply about.”
- “I want to write a great book — I want to make a difference — I want to have adventures and take enormous risks and be everything they say we are and not give a damn what anyone says.”
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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 )
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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
Show 12 more facts
- 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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