Writer Dorothy Allison will speak in the Harold Washington Library Center’s Cindy Pritzker Auditorium Saturday, Nov. 3, 10:30-11:30 a.m.

She is the author of the prize-winning novels, Bastard out of Carolina and Cavedweller, as well as Two or Three Things I Know for Sure, Trash, Skin and a book of poetry, The Women Who Hate Me. Her new novel, She Who, is forthcoming from Penguin.

Admission is $5-$10.