![]() Although she had begun writing as a child, she viewed writing She credits feminism for enabling her toīecome a writer. Several feminist publications and helping establish Herstore, a feministīookstore in Tallahassee, Florida. The New School for Social Research in New York.īecame active in the women’s movement in the early seventies, working for She later earned a master’s degree in anthropology from Her chance toĮscape came when a National Merit Scholarship paid for her to attend Florida In her relatives’ survival despite such hopeless conditions. ![]() The violence and chaos of her upbringing, stemming largelyįrom her family’s poverty, fuel Allison’s writing, as does the strength she saw ![]() ![]() After her mother married, her aunts provided occasional refuge from anĪbusive stepfather. Fourteen-year-old mother, Dorothy Allison was raised near her large extendedįamily. ![]()
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