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Flannery O'Connor

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Ruby Hillappears in A Stroke of Good Fortune

Ruby Hill is a thirty-four year old woman, with mulberry colored hair and carries too much weight. Ruby is married to Bill Hill and has been for five years. The couple lives on the fifth floor of an apartment building. Ruby is convinced that something is wrong with her, only confirmed by a shortness of breath as she tries to carry groceries up the stairs. Ruby...

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Flannery O'Connor Biographies (4)

Flannery O'Connor

970 words, approx. 4 pages

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 i... Read more

Flannery O'Connor

4,728 words, approx. 16 pages

Biography EssayFlannery 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 ... Read more

(Mary) Flannery O'Connor

3,764 words, approx. 13 pages

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... Read more

(Mary) Flannery O'Connor

13,481 words, approx. 45 pages

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 -- h... Read more

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