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From childhood cartoons to thoughtful self-portraits, the acclaimed Southern writer was always a keen observer of her ...
On Feb. 23, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home starts the celebration by confronting the challenges with O’Connor’s writing head on. In partnership with the Beach Institute African ...
When it comes to violence, grotesque fiction, and a flair for irony, no Southern writer during the 20th century did it better ...
But just a few hours southeast of the city lived a 14-year-old named Flannery O’Connor, who thought the spectacle was ridiculous. O’Connor loathed the historical epic, though she and Mitchell ...
Everyone, it seems, is talking about Flannery O’Connor. The Georgia-based late Catholic author of Wiseblood and a number of compelling short stories, is the subject of the recently released film ...
As my wife and I honeymooned in Charleston, South Carolina, three decades ago, I ducked into a local bookstore and bought a copy of Flannery O’Connor’s collected stories. O’Connor’s ...
Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan; by Katheryn Krotzer Laborde; Fordham University; Press; 208 pp., $30.00 In Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan, Katheryn Krotzer Laborde takes a closer look at her ...
In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor ...
Photo: Angus Mordant/Bloomberg News/Saul Loeb/Mandel Ngan/AFP/Getty Images Flannery O’Connor, arguably the best Catholic writer this country ever produced, was born 100 years ago March 25 in ...
A panel discussion on February 23 will feature O’Connor scholars Mark Bosco, Patricia West, and Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, who will discuss the themes of faith, race, and disability in O’Connor ...