Faulkner, The Sound and the Fury (1929);As I Lay Dying (1930) West, Miss Lonelyhearts (1933) Porter, Flowering Judas (1935) Wright, Native Son (1940) Welty,A Curtain of Green; Fitzgerald, The Last Tycoon (1941) Williams, The Glass Menagerie (1945) Miller, Death of a Salesman (1949) Wise Blood; Ellison, Invisible Man; Hemingway, The Old Man and the Sea (1952) A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) Hansberry, Raisin in the Sun (1959) The Violent Bear It Away (1960) Albee, Who’s Afraid of Virginia Woolf? (1962) Martin Luther King, Jr., "I Have a Dream" (1963) Everything That Rises Must Converge (post., 1965) | 1925 1970 | O’Connor born in Savannah, GA (Mar. 25, 1925) Stock market crash (1929); start of Great Depression Nazis gain control of Germany (1933) World War II (1939—45); Japan bombs Pearl Harbor and U.S. enters war (1941) O’Connor graduates from Georgia State College; U.S. drops atomic bomb on Japan (1945) O’Connor earns MFA at Iowa School for Writers (1947) O’Connor takes up residence at Yaddo (1948) Germany divided; Chinese Communist Party establishes People’s Republic (1949) Korean War (1950—53) O’Connor diagnosed with lupus (1952) DNA discovered (1953) Brown v. Board: racial segregation in schools ruled unconstitutional; McCarthy-Army hearings (1954) Cuban Revolution (1959) Wave of sit-ins at segregated lunch counters in American South (1960) Berlin Wall erected (1961) Cuban Missile crisis (1962) Kennedy assassinated (1963) O’Connor dies in Milledgville, GA (Aug. 3, 1964) U.S. enters Vietnam War; Malcolm X assassinated (1965) Martin Luther King, Jr. assassinated (1968) |
