This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor ...
A hundred years after the birth of Flannery O’Connor, her South, as well as the rest of America, is less “Christ-haunted,” as ...
COMMENTARY: The Catholic writer’s faith shone through such suffering when she said, ‘I can with one eye squinted take it all ...
Fans of Southern Gothic fiction are in for a rare surprise. As part of the extended 100th birthday celebration of ...
When I first read stories by Flannery O’Connor in college, I was thoroughly horrified by the violence. The classic story most ...
The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings ...
One hundred years after Flannery O' Connor's birth, she has been miscast at two extremes, either as a racist or as a saint.
Born Mary Flannery O’Connor on March 25, 1935, Flannery wrote two novels and 32 short stories before dying from lupus in 1964 at 39. She dropped the conspicuous Catholic “Mary” when she became a ...
Flannery O’Connor is seen in this 1962 photo ... were published in 2022; her prayer journal was published in 2013; and a ...