Flannery O'Connor
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- Good Country People (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- The Displaced Person (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Enduring Chill (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Good Country People (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Greenleaf (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Life You Save May Be Your Own (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Parker's Back (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The River (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Habit of Being (Masterplots II: Nonfiction Series)
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find (Magill Book Reviews)
- The Stories of O'Connor (Masterplots, Definitive Revised Edition)
- The Violent Bear It Away (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- Wise Blood (Masterplots, Fourth Edition)
- The Southern Novel (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- The Novella (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
- Theory of Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Late Twentieth Century: 1960-2000 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- The Mid-Twentieth Century: 1920-1960 - Short Fiction (Critical Survey of Short Fiction, Second Revised Edition)
- Everything That Rises Must Converge (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Habit of Being (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- Wise Blood (Masterplots II: Women's Literature Series)
- The Violent Bear It Away (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Wise Blood (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
- Everything That Rises Must Converge (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Revelation (Identities & Issues in Literature)
- Revelation (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- The Artificial Nigger (Masterplots II: Short Story Series, Revised Edition)
- Origins and Development of the Novel, 1890-1980 (Critical Survey of Long Fiction, Fourth Edition)
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- Author: Flannery O’Connor
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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