Dorothy Allison’s Followers (1,703)

Add New
Videos

Dorothy Allsion talks about "Bastard Out of Carolina"

Add a comment

Dorothy Allison

Born

in Greenville, South Carolina, The United States

April 11, 1949

Died

November 06, 2024

Website

http://www.dorothyallison.net

Genre

Literature & Fiction, Gay & Lesbian

edit data

Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

2 posts
Dorothy Allison's Blog

Dorothy Allison isn't a Goodreads Author (yet), but they do have a blog, so here are some recent posts imported from their feed.

Smart Women and Publishing

(This is an account of remarks I made at AWP in Chicago February 14th, 2009 (Valentine's Day) on the panel on Smart Women and publishing. As is so often the case, I did not actually deliver the talk I had prepared to deliver at AWP—though I drew from that talk in my remarks. I had to cut it by half and reorganize it when time ran short, so some of what I did will be lost forever, but some of it ..

Combine Editions
Dorothy Allison’s books

Average rating: 4.11 · 70,741 ratings · 5,465 reviews · 79 distinct works • Similar authors

	Bastard Out of Carolina 4.14 avg rating — 47,220 ratings — published 1992 — 53 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Two or Three Things I Know for Sure 4.13 avg rating — 6,013 ratings — published 1995 — 18 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Trash 4.11 avg rating — 5,522 ratings — published 1988 — 23 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Cavedweller 3.74 avg rating — 4,318 ratings — published 1998 — 38 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Skin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature 4.27 avg rating — 2,540 ratings — published 1994 — 17 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Bastard Out of Carolina / Two or Three Things I Know For Sure 4.05 avg rating — 518 ratings — published 1995 — 2 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry, 1980-1990 4.11 avg rating — 485 ratings — published 1983 — 10 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Writer's Notebook: Craft Essays from Tin House by Dorothy Allison, Jim Shepard, Aimee Bender (Goodreads Author) 4.13 avg rating — 371 ratings — published 2009 — 3 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Best of Tin House: Stories 3.88 avg rating — 92 ratings — published 2006	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Amour & bave de schneck by Dorothy Allison, Joan Nestle, Noémie Grunenwald (translator) 4.17 avg rating — 54 ratings	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

More books by Dorothy Allison…

Quotes by Dorothy Allison (?)

“Two or three things I know for sure, and one of them is the way you can both hate and love something you are not sure you understand.”
― Dorothy Allison, Two or Three Things I Know for Sure

1807 likes

“Things come apart so easily when they have been held together with lies.”
― Dorothy Allison, Bastard Out of Carolina

tags: lies, lying, truth

1121 likes

“The horror of class stratification, racism, and prejudice is that some people begin to believe that the security of their families and communities depends on the oppression of others, that for some to have good lives there must be others whose lives are truncated and brutal.”
― Dorothy Allison

111 likes

See all Dorothy Allison's quotes »

Polls

January 2019 New School Poll

As I Lay Dying by William Faulkner, 288 pages, 1930

112 votes, 35.2%

True Grit by Charles Portis, 224 pages, 1968

73 votes, 23.0%

Midnight's Children by Salman Rushdie, 647 pages, 1981

71 votes, 22.3%

Bastard Out of Carolina by Dorothy Allison, 320 pages, 1992

38 votes, 11.9%

The Egyptian by Mika Waltari, 503 pages, 1945

24 votes, 7.5%

318 total votes

comments and details

More...

Topics Mentioning This Author

topics	posts	views	last activity
Mystery/Thriller ...: Your first signed book/author signing event?	64	113	Sep 24, 2009 08:18PM
Challenge: 50 Books: Rosie's 50 in 2009!	54	303	Jan 04, 2010 07:41AM
Wild Things: YA G...: Books Coming Up Soon - Anyone Read?	44	73	Sep 14, 2010 09:19AM
Cover to Cover Ch...: Lisa's 144 Books & More	13	89	Dec 01, 2010 07:27PM
Between the Lines: Books Recently Bought	229	508	Jul 04, 2011 05:28AM
On the Southern L...: * To Kill a Mockingbird: Initial Impressions, June 2012	33	69	Jul 16, 2012 06:09AM

More…