Monday Meme: Cracks

Happy birthday Dorothy Allison! This literary powerhouse turns 67 today! Author of the award-winning novel Bastard Out Of Carolina, Allison is an open lesbian, a proud advocate of independent authors and small presses and a winner of several Lambda Literary Awards. Allison writes openly about her own physical and sexual abuse as a child as well as tackling the topics of gender, feminism and poverty. Hugely influential, Bastard Out of Carolina continues to be a much-discussed and beloved novel for both book clubs and literature students around the globe.