Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer, speaker, and member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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“My family’s lives were not on television, not in books, not even comic books. There was a myth of the poor in this country, but it did not include us, no matter how hard I tried to squeeze us in. There was an idea of the good poor—hard-working, ragged but clean, and intrinsically honorable. I understood that we were the bad poor ...”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)
“... fiction never exceeds the reach of the writer’s courage.”
—Dorothy Allison (b. 1949)