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...

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...

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...

The name Flannery O'Connor has become synonymous with Southern literature. Her characters are good country people and lowly misfits who speak with rich Southern accents, and no matter how misguided their actions, they are never beyond...

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25 1925 – August 3 1964) was an American novelist, short-story writer and...

Flannery O'Connor: A Life. By Jean W. Cash. (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002. Pp. xviii, 356. $30.00, ISBN 1-57233-192-5.) Flannery O'Connor has been dead for almost forty years. Sally Fitzgerald, one of O'Connor's literary executors, spent most of this time amassing a...

Flannery O'Connor and the Mystery of Love. By Richard Giannone. New York: Fordham Universtiy Press, 1999. xxi + 268 pp. $33.00 (cloth): $18.00. (Paper). For those who suspected that Flannery O'Connor might be more Christian than the Christians who have commented on her...

They don't seem like much at first glance, the two boxes of yellowing letters sitting amid the shelves of aged leather-bound volumes.But the 274 epistles have unlocked two decades' worth of mysteries about the years of correspondence between author Flannery O'Connor and longtime friend, Elizabeth...

Pulitzer Prize winning author Alice Walker is placing her literary archive at Emory University's library.The author of the 1983 Pulitzer Prize-winning "The Color Purple," "By the Light of My Father's Smile" and other works visits Emory every couple of years for readings and meetings with...

In the following essay, Zornado explores the relationship between O'Connor's Roman Catholic faith and her art and finds parallels between her literary sensibilities and those of Thomas Merton.

In the following essay, Raiger explores O'Connor's use of modern forms, particularly the grotesque and the sublime, in her short fiction.

In the following essay, Schaum examines the archetype of the trickster in O'Connor's short fiction and argues that she provides, through this archetype, a multi-faceted caricature of Lucifer.

Mary Flannery O'Connor, one of the most talented writers in American modern literature, is especially famous for her short fictions. She died of lupus at an early age of 39. Through the decades the glamour of her works has not vanished but become even more mysterious and attractive. This is a paper that focuses on one of them--A Good Man Is Hard to Find. My paper is mainly divided into five parts. First, I give some history review on the works of Flannery O'Connor, and some history facts on her. Secondly, I

Flannery O'Connor's "Guests of the Nation" is a story of war that focuses less on the external conflict between nations and more on the internal conflict of the Irish soldiers, Bonaparte and Noble. This helps the reader understand how the weight of duty ultimately defeats personal morals during war.

Flannery O' Connors stories all depict the roles of southerners and their pursuit of god's grace through sinful pride. The main characters take pride in their knowing of their religion and feeling higher than others because of their appearance, beliefs, and nature. In all three stories the main female characters all possesss some trait of thinking they are better than others, and this thought is what leads to each of them being outsmarted by their " lesser " counter-parts, the male race.