![]() ![]() For several years now she and her partner have lived in the Napa Valley for California, and she has continued to publish outstanding books. Bastard Out of Carolina came out in 1992. Her first book, a story collection, Trash, won her two Lambda Awards given to outstanding lesbian fiction. While attending college in Florida and graduate school in New York City, she held a wide variety of jobs. Not only was Dorothy Allison the first of her family to graduate from high school, but she became a National Merit Scholar. ![]() When she was five, her mother married, and her husband began to sexually abuse Allison, eventually infecting her with a serious, untreated, case of gonorrhea which destroyed her reproductive organs. Allison grew up in Greenville, South Carolina, the daughter of a single mother who worked as a waitress and cook. ![]() This book was one of the first exquisitely written explorations of sexual abuse told from an unflinching working-class perspective. It and the film based on it have been banned from many venues. It was a finalist for the National Book Award and won other honors, but it also horrified many people. This autobiographical novel has had a huge impact upon American and even world literature. ![]()
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