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...

The Life You Save May Be Your Own: An American Pilgrimage by Paul Elie Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, 2003. 555 pp. $15.00. ISBN 0-374-52921-3. PAUL ELIE OFFERS us a brilliant "group biography"-an intricate braiding of four spiritual journeys. It is a...

Law enforcement attitudes change as saves hit close to home Law enforcement agencies usually get involved in AED programs with the goal of saving the lives of the citizens they serve in their communities. Ironically, some have found that their first saves...

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...