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Conversations with Dorothy Allison Theodolphus I And with the talent ofSince the publication of her groundbreaking novel, Bastard Out of Carolina (1992), Dorothy Allison (b. 1949) has been known along with authors such as Larry Brown and Lee Smith as a purveyor of the working class, contemporary South. Allison has frequently used her position, through passionate lectures and enthusiastic interviews, to give voice to issues that concern her most: poverty, working class life, domestic violence, feminism and women's