Death of Dorothy Allison, rabid writer

Portrait The writer died on Wednesday November 6 at the age of 75. She was the Janis Joplin of the American novel. Feminist, militant lesbian, writer of the revolt, Dorothy Allison revived social and committed literature in the United States through her success. We are republishing our meeting.

Known for her ability to weave together issues of class, gender and sexuality, the writer Dorothy Allison died on Wednesday November 6 at the age of 75. A great figure in contemporary American literature, Allison notably made a mark with her novel “The Story of Bone” (“Bastard Out of Carolina” in the original version), for its raw portrait of a young girl's struggle for survival in a violent home. The book was adapted into a film in 1996.

The 15-year-old daughter of a single mother, Dorothy Allison was born in 1949 and raised in Greenville, South Carolina. The first person in her family to have studied, she was an editor for the feminist magazines “Quest”, “Conditions” and “Outlook”. In the 1980s, she began to think and write about her particular condition as a pro-sex lesbian from the working class. She will publish works of fiction (“L’Hi…