# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/dorothy-allison
# Generated: 2026-08-13T14:58:38.411Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/dorothy-allison"
name: "Dorothy Allison"
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description: "Dorothy Earlene Allison was an American writer whose writing focused on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism, and lesbianism. She was a self-identified femme lesbian. Allison won several Lambda Literary Awards. In 2014, Allison was elected to membership in the Fellowship of Southern Writers."
tagline: "American writer, poet, novelist, critic (1949–2024)"
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birthDate: "1949-04-11"
deathDate: "2024-11-06"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump