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Wise Blood (1952) is O’Connor’s first novel. It tells the story of young Hazel Motes who, like Francis Tarwater, is caught in a struggle against his innate faith.

O’Connor’s most celebrated collection of short stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories (1955), is a classic of Southern Gothic literature that tells of the underside of life in the rural South.

The posthumously-published The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O’Connor (1988) offers a self-portrait of an author who otherwise revealed very little of herself.

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