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From childhood cartoons to thoughtful self-portraits, the acclaimed Southern writer was always a keen observer of her surroundings ...
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 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville, Ga. She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
Every year, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum celebrates the birthday of Savannah’s greatest literary treasure with a parade and birthday cake. Flannery O’Connor was a Southern ...
When it comes to violence, grotesque fiction, and a flair for irony, no Southern writer during the 20th century did it better ...
Ruby Turpin spends nearly all of Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation,” telling herself and others what a good, God-fearing woman she is, how grateful she is that the Lord has made her so.
Jennifer Frey beautifully captures the Catholic vision of reality in “Flannery O’Connor’s Tales of Evil and Grace” (Houses of Worship, March 21). The devil continually tempts us to skip ...
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 ...