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Born
in Greenville, South Carolina, Dorothy Allison took the literary
community combined her southern roots and raw talent and took the
literary community by storm when her first novel, Bastard Out of
Carolina was one of the five finalists for the 1992 National Book
Award. Though the novel did not win that award, it did win several
other awards and launched Allison's career.
She has also published two editions of poetry, both titled The Women
Who Hate Me-the first in 1983 by Long Haul Press and the expanded
1990 edition by Firebrand and her poetry chapbook has been
continuously in print for more than twelve years.
Her second novel, Cavedweller (Dutton, 1998) won the 1998 Lambda
Literary Award for fiction and was a best seller. Also, in that same
year, Allison founded the Independent Spirit Award, a prize given
each year to an individual whose work with small presses and
independent bookstores has helped to sustain that enterprise.
Allison lives in
Northern California with her partner, and her seven year old son,
Wolf Michael.
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