Dorothy Allison (born April 11 1949 in South Carolina), is a writer in the United States.She was brouhgt in South Carolina by her mother who has had to fifteen years and a stepfather who abused her, she manages to enter university in Florida to conduct studies of anthropology. It mixes with feminist groups and lesbians when it finds its identity and commitment. It released its laws in several journals and collections of his poems and his new appeared in 1983 and 1988.
It acquires a reputation autobiographical novel, The History of Bone (Bastard Out of Carolina, 1992) dealing with his appalling childhood in a poor family and incestuous the southern United States. Skin gathers often autobiographical short essays on social class, homosexuality (the butch-fem identities, the use of controversial godemichet, SM fantasies, homophobia) and literature as an expression of the oppressed. She was influenced by authors like James Baldwin and Audre Lorde.
His second novel, Back to Cayro (Cavedweller, 1998) tells the story of a woman, Delia Byrd, who, accompanied by her last daughter, Cissy, is recovering her children, Amanda and Dede, after living with a rock - star, and died in a motorcycle accident. She returned to her hometown, Cayro. It is a deeply moving novel about the redemption of a woman after a long descent into hell. The book earned its author a new success.
Works
1983: The Women Who Hate Me: Poems by Dorothy Allison;
1988: Trash: Short Stories
1991: The Women Who Hate Me: Poetry 1980-1990
1992: Bastard Out of Carolina; trad. The History of Bone, 10/18, 1998.
1994: Skin: Talking About Sex, Class and Literature; trad. Skin editions Balland, 1999.
1995: Two or Three Things I Know for Sure
1998: Cavedweller; trad. Back to Cayro, Belfond editions, 1998; 10/18, 2000.
She Who (forthcoming)
