Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison is a well-known feminist and Southern author whose intimate and personal writing focuses on the intersecting issues of gender, sexuality, and class.
Like Bone, the protagonist of her breakout novel, Bastard Out of Carolina, Dorothy Allison was born in Greenville, South Carolina; the first child of a poor, fifteen-year-old single mother. Also like Bone, Allison suffered physical and sexual abuse at the hands of her stepfather. Allison had a difficult and unstable childhood, but...
