Dorothy Allison

| birth_place = Greenville, South Carolina, U.S. | death_date = | death_place = Guerneville, California, U.S. | occupation = | education = Florida Presbyterian College (BA)
Florida State University
The New School for Social Research (MA) | subject = class struggle, child and sexual abuse, women, lesbianism, feminism, and family | movement = Feminism | spouse = Alix Layman | children = 1 | website = (archived) }}

Dorothy Earlene Allison (April 11, 1949 – November 5, 2024) was an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers. Provided by Wikipedia