Thu, Mar 05
|Eckerd College
Eckerd College honors Dorothy Allison
"Our Lives in Story - the Real in Fiction" How we make over the stories we are told and the lives we lead.


Time & Location
Mar 05, 2020, 5:00 PM
Eckerd College, 4200 54th Avenue South St. Petersburg, Florida 33711
About the Event
Dorothy Allison graduated from Eckerd College in 1971 and went on to become one of the most celebrated writers of her generation. Her books include Bastard Out of Carolina (A finalist for the Natonal Book Award), Cavedweller, Skin: Talkling about Sex, Class & Literature, The Women Who Hate me (poetry), and Two or Three Things I know for Sure (performance). She has been an editor at many feminist and gay and lesbian publications and a columnist for a range of independent journals. She now lives in northern California where she is completing a novel. Contact: https://www.eckerd.edu/