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Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison
Dorothy Allison, author of the best-selling book Bastard Out of Carolina, will give a lecture titled “What we talk about when we talk about civil rights," at Hamilton on Wednesday, Jan. 27, at 7:30 p.m., in the Science Center’s Kennedy Auditorium. The lecture is free and open to the public and is sponsored by the Cultural Education Center.

Allison received mainstream recognition with her novel Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), a finalist for the 1992 National Book Award. The novel won the Ferro Grumley prize, an ALA Award for Lesbian and Gay Writing, became a best seller, and an award-winning movie. It has been translated into more than a dozen languages.

Her book Cavedweller (1998) became a national bestseller, NY Times Notable Book of the Year, finalist for the Lillian Smith prize, and an ALA prize winner. Adapted for the stage by Kate Moira Ryan, the play was directed by Michael Greif.

Allison grew up in Greenville, S. C., the first child of a 15-year-old unwed mother who worked as a waitress. Now living in Northern California with her partner and her teenage son, she describes herself as a feminist, a working class story teller, a Southern expatriate, a sometime poet and a happily born-again Californian.

The first member of her family to graduate from high school, Allison attended Florida Presbyterian College on a National Merit Scholarship and studied anthropology at the New School for Social Research. She was awarded the 2007 Robert Penn Warren Award for Fiction, and is a member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.

Allison was Emory University Center for Humanistic Inquiry’s Distinguished Visiting Professor in 2008, and in fall 2009 she was the McGee Professor and writer in residence at Davidson College.

Her latest novel, She Who, is forthcoming.

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