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Dorothy Allison, author ofBastard Out of CarolinaandSkin: Talking About Sex, Class And Literature,has died.
According toSinister Wisdom, Allison died Wednesday after a short illness with cancer.
She repped poor, rural queerness when at least two of those three things seemed mutually exclusive to outsiders.
AsLiterary Hubput it, Allison wrote about a queer, poor South with dynamism and ferocious love.
Dorothy Allison was born on April 11, 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina.
Her mother, Ruth Gibson Allison, was 15 at the time.
In her writing Allison described a childhood of poverty and abuse, both sexual and physical.
Allison went to college and eventually got her masters at the New School.
While in New York, she dove headfirst into the emerging feminist and gay rights movements.
She is perhaps best known forBastard Out of Carolina,a semi-autobiographical novel.
It was adapted into a film starring Jena Malone and Jennifer Jason Leigh in 1996.
