Bloom, Harold, ed., Flannery O'Connor: Comprehensive Research and Study Guide, Bloom's Major Short Story Writers series, Chelsea House, 1999.

This introduction to O'Connor's short fiction features some of her best-known stories, including "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" and "Everything That Rises Must Converge." Bloom includes a biography of the author along with analyses of the stories.

Cash, Jean W., Flannery O'Connor: A Life, University of Tennessee Press, 2002.

This recent biography focuses on presenting the facts of O'Connor's life rather than attempting to interpret it. Cash catalogs even minute details of her subject's life, such as what college courses she took.

O'Connor, Flannery, The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald, Noonday Press, 1988.

This is a reprint edition of a collection of O'Connor's correspondence that was first published in 1979. Arranged chronologically, the letters take up nearly 600 pages and comprise the closest thing readers have to an...