Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was a writer of short stories and novels in which comedy, grotesquerie, and violence were united with a profound moral and theological vision. Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925, the only chil...

Although Flannery O'Connor completed only a relatively small corpus of fiction during her brief life -- two novels and thirty-one short stories between 1945 and her death at thirty-nine in 1964 -- her stunning talent was immediately recognized, and her r...

Flannery O'Connor's life is best summarized in Robert Fitzgerald's introduction to Everything That Rises Must Converge. As friend and literary executor, Fitzgerald writes of her with candor and love: "She was a girl who started with a gift for cartooning...

McCoy, Lezlie B. Philadelphia Tribune, The 05-14-2002 "...The blazing torches sent reflections dancing in the trees like the shadows of angels. Dust billowed up around the marchers' feet. Mendy's position, almost out in the open, meant she could not move or even flinch without...

Nat Hentoff; Newspaper Enterprise Association Denver Rocky Mountain News 09-28-1998 SCHOOL UNDER FIRE CIRCLES THE WAGONS Last spring, the law school of the University of Washington in Seattle invited me to speak to the faculty. As is customary, faculty members had read some...