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In 5 pages, the writer discusses Flannery O'Connor's life, her style, and her place in the literary world. Flannery O'Connor was born Mary Flannery O'Connor. O'Connor wrote a collection of short stories, 'A Good Man Is Hard to Find'. Her novels were 'Wise Blood' and 'The Violent Bear It Away'. Posthumously published were 'Mystery and Manners', a collection of essays and lectures, and 'Flannery O'Connor: The Complete Stories'. The latter included her most famous story, 'Everything That Rises Must Converge', which was awarded the National Book Award for fiction. Bibliography lists 8 sources.
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was then Georgia State College for Women. According to McHenry (1995), "Her stark tales of variously alienated and deformed characters, recalling in some ways and yet transcending the hackneyed
conventions of Southern gothic writing, were in fact moral fables informed by the authors Catholic viewpoint" (pp. PG). McHenry (1995) further stated, "Her Christian and
often almost mystical concerns, expressed in stories by violent incident, gave rise to comparisons of her writing with that of Dostoevsky, although some critics saw it rather as merely narrow.
The power of her fictions, however, outlived their shock, and "Flannery OConnor: The Complete Stories", edited by Robert Giroux, 1971, won a National Book Award" (McHenry pp. PG).
Flannery OConnor was hailed as one of Americas most influential post-World War II authors. She had a lifelong interest in cartooning. "OConnor produced a
significant body of cartoon work, much of which has been ignored in favor of her more significant achievements in fiction" (Anonymous pp. 1). "By
all accounts, OConnor was a shy girl with a penchant for startling, unique behavior that foreshadowed the highly individualistic visions with which she later imbued her fiction. Generally, OConnor preferred
to be left to her own pursuits, which involved studies in painting, art and writing-both poetry and prose-while at Peabody" (Anonymous pp. 1). OConnor was
diagnosed with the same type of lupus that killed her father. It was both incurable and terminal. "...OConnor preserved through increasing physical debilitation and completed her first novel,
Wise Blood, which appeared to critical acclaim in 1952. Over the next dozen years, she would publish an important body of literature and would continue to pursue her interest
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