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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...

By Flannery O'Connor. Farrar, Straus and Giroux. 243 pages. $10. In the last few years, far off the track of New York editors' lunches, a phenomenal growth category for fiction has emerged: the Christian thriller. It is a genre that shares not...

Having baptized--and in doing so drowned--his idiot cousin, Bishop, young Tarwater remembers as in a dream the sacrament-murder while sitting in the cab of a parked "auto-transit truck": The boy's jerking arms almost touched him [the driver] once or twice as...

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...

In the following essay, Zornado considers the relationship between O'Connor's Catholic faith and her fiction by focusing on the depiction of baptism in her story “The River” and her novel The Violent Bear It Away.

Flannery O'Connor's [The Violent Bear It Away] has a number of immediately striking resemblances, in its religious theme, its Southern setting, its frequently violent or macabre action, and its spiritually tortured characters, both to her short stories, especially those collected in A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), and to her first and only other novel, Wise Blood (1952). (p. 11) Disregarding both the more and less obvious matters for the time being, there are several parallels between [The ...