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Dorothy Allison, Author of ‘Bastard Out of Carolina,’ Dies at 75
Dorothy Allison, who wrote with lyrical, pungent wit about her working-class Southern upbringing — and about the incest and violence that shaped her — and whose acclaimed 1992 novel, “Bastard Out of Carolina,” based on her harrowing childhood, made her a literary star, died on Tuesday at her home in Guerneville, Calif., in Sonoma County. She was 75. Her death, from cancer, was announced by the Frances Goldin Literary Agency, her longtime representative.