Flannery O'Connor

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Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. O’Connor wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest’s 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969) and her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988 the Library of America published her Collected Works; she was the first postwar writer to be so honored.  O’Connor was educated at the Georgia State College for Women, studied writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and wrote much of Wise Blood at the Yaddo artists’ colony in upstate New York.  She lived most of her adult life on her family’s ancestral farm, Andalusia, outside Milledgeville, Georgia.


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The Violent Bear It Away
The Violent Bear It Away

Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux

First published in 1955, The Violent Bear It Away is now a landmark in American literature. It is a dark and absorbing example of the Gothic sensibility and...


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Wise Blood
Wise Blood

Flannery O'Connor
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Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor’s astonishing and haunting first novel, is a classic of twentieth-century literature. Focused on the story of Hazel Motes, a...


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The Habit of Being
The Habit of Being

Flannery O'Connor; Selected and Edited by Sally Fitzgerald
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Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award "I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a...


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The Complete Stories
The Complete Stories

Flannery O'Connor
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Winner of the National Book Award The publication of this extraordinary volume firmly established Flannery O'Connor's monumental contribution to American...


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Mystery and Manners
Mystery and Manners

Flannery O'Connor; Selected and Edited by Sally and Robert Fitzgerald
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At her death in 1964, O'Connor left behind a body of unpublished essays and lectures as well as a number of critical articles that had appeared in scattered...


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Everything That Rises Must Converge
Everything That Rises Must Converge

Flannery O'Connor; Introduction by Robert Fitzgerald
Farrar, Straus and Giroux Paperbacks

Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965) is nine posthumous stories. The introduction is by Robert Fitzgerald.


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