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Dorothy Allison

1949 - Today

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Dorothy Allison (born April 11, 1949) is an American writer from South Carolina whose writing focuses on class struggle, sexual abuse, child abuse, feminism and lesbianism. She is a self-identified lesbian femme. Allison has won a number of awards for her writing, including several Lambda Literary Awards. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Dorothy Allison has received more than 277,659 page views. Her biography is available in 18 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 16 in 2019). Dorothy Allison is the 5,873rd most popular writer (down from 5,470th in 2019), the 11,357th most popular biography from United States (up from 11,789th in 2019) and the 847th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 280k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 39.28

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 18

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 2.76

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.08

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, Dorothy Allison ranks 5,873 out of 5,755. Before her are Bessie Head, Paul Laurence Dunbar, Leyla Aliyeva, Joumana Haddad, John Seigenthaler, and Graciano Rocchigiani. After her are Stephen Chbosky, Catherine Cookson, Rose Tremain, James Gleick, Forrest J Ackerman, and Tom Egeland.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1949, Dorothy Allison ranks 625. Before her are Giuseppe Sabadini, Pat Rice, Peter Piot, Ludwig Schick, Chicão, and Isabelle Mir. After her are Leslie Valiant, Natalya Lebedeva, Julio Cardeñosa, John Curry, Hannu Siitonen, and Daniel Leclercq.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Dorothy Allison ranks 11,357 out of 18,182. Before her are Arlene Francis (1907), Timmy Mayer (1938), Suzanne Farrell (1945), Charles Vinci (1933), Elisabeth Harnois (1979), and Jan Davis (1953). After her are Ron Brown (1941), Jesse James (1969), Gerald Wilson (1918), Fiona Apple (1977), Stephen Chbosky (1970), and Richard G. Hovannisian (1932).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Dorothy Allison ranks 847. Before her are Hanya Yanagihara (1974), Katie Couric (1957), Norman Podhoretz (1930), Alexei Panshin (1940), Paul Laurence Dunbar (1872), and John Seigenthaler (1927). After her are Stephen Chbosky (1970), James Gleick (1954), Forrest J Ackerman (1916), William H. Gass (1924), Wilma Mankiller (1945), and George S. Kaufman (1889).

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