Everything That Rises Must Converge | Author Biography
Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O’Connor was the only child of Edwin Francis and Regina Cline O’Connor. She was raised in a devout Roman Catholic family, which was an anomaly in the American South.
When O’Connor was thirteen, her father was diagnosed with disseminated lupus, a hereditary disease. The family moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother’s hometown, where they lived in her mother’s ancestral home at the center of town. Edwin O’Connor died two years later.
O’Connor attended parochial school in Savannah but graduated...
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