![]() ![]() 1 As she moved through the genres, from poetry to short fiction to novel to personal essay to performance piece, and finally to memoir, Allison's literary output consistently told the same story: But what may be the central fact of my life is that I was born in 1949 in Greenville, South Carolina, the bastard daughter of a white woman from a desperately poor family, a girl who had left the seventh grade the year before, worked as a waitress, and was just a month past fifteen when she had me. Although Two or Three Things I Know For Sure carries the label "memoir" on its back cover, the text was originally a performance piece, and eventually became the subject of a documentary film. ![]() Dorothy Allison's strong and sustained autobiographical impulse is evident in much of her writing, including some of the poems in The Women Who Hate Me, the stories in Trash, her first novel Bastard Out of Carolina, many of the essays in Skin: Talking About Sex, Class, and Literature, and especially in her memoir, Two or Three Things I Know For Sure. ![]()
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