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Flannery O’Connor (Dictionary of World Biography: The 20th Century)

Early Life

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, the only child of Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr., and Regina Cline O’Connor, both of whom came from prominent Southern Catholic families. Flannery was a happy, sensitive, and independent child. When she was twelve, her father became critically ill with disseminated lupus, a rare and incurable metabolic disease, and the family moved from Savannah into the Cline home in Milledgeville, which formerly had been the governor’s mansion (when Milledgeville was the capital of Georgia). Three years...

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