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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
May 1, 2024 · Flannery O’Connor (born March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.—died August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works, usually set in the rural American South and often treating of alienation, concern the relationship between the individual and God.
Jun 15, 2020 · A Critic at Large. How Racist Was Flannery O’Connor? She has become an icon of American letters. Now readers are reckoning with another side of her legacy. By Paul Elie. June 15, 2020. A...
Sep 6, 2023 · Flannery O’Connor, the gothic short story writer born in Savannah, Georgia, was, in her own words, “an integrationist by principle and a segregationist by taste.” Born in 1925 and now regarded as...
Apr 30, 2024 · In this article from 1979, a Jesuit priest recalls his friendship with Flannery O'Connor.
Aug 8, 2018 · All that needed to be said of young Flannery O’Connor had been said—and it was time to turn her full attention to her characters, to pour her self into them and make them come alive.
May 11, 2024 · Nobody’s ever really known what to do with Mary Flannery O’Connor. They didn’t know when she was alive, and they haven’t known since she died in 1964, at 39, after years of battling through lupus...
Jul 9, 2018 · “Not the shimmering multidimensionality of modernism but the two-dimensionality of cartoon art is at the heart of the work of O’Connor, whose unshakable absolutist faith provided her with a rationale with which to mock both her secular and bigoted Christian contemporaries in a succession of brilliantly orchestrated short stories that read ...
Jan 17, 2023 · Flannery O’Connor left behind one of the most haunting and strikingly original bodies of work in 20th-century literature. With the rural South as her backdrop, she...
Mar 30, 2020 · Flannery O’Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer. A diligent storyteller and editor, she fought publishers to retain artistic control over her work. Her writing portrayed Catholicism and the South with nuance and complexity lacking in many other public spheres. Fast Facts: Flannery O'Connor.
