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Flannery O’Connor (1925—1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She graduated from Women’s College of Georgia in 1945 and then went on to earn an M.F.A. in writing from the State University of Iowa in 1947. O’Connor felt that her identity as a southerner provided her with many of the raw materials she needed to fabricate the settings and finely detailed characters of her stories. Though the South served as the setting for O’Connor’s fiction, Roman Catholicism allowed her to transcend the confines of regionalism to make a universal statement. Flannery O’Connor is considered one of the unique voices to emerge from the 1950s.
Major Works by O’Connor Wise Blood (1952, novel)A Good Man Is Hard To Find, and Other Stories (1955) The Violent Bear It Away (1960, novel) Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965, stories) Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (1969) The Complete Short Stories (1971) The Habit of Being: Letters (1979)
O’Connor and the Web The Flannery O’Connor Collection at the Georgia College & State University library is a very good starting point. It offers photos and many, many links to Connors-related resources. This is the homepage of a site devoted to exploring O'Connor's farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. What would O'Connor write if she were alive today? Read daily entries from Flannery O'Connor's diaries, letters, and prose writing at "If Flannery Had a Blog." |