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Flannery O'Connor
American writer (1925–1964)
Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
She was a Southern writer, who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style, and she relied, heavily, on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. In her writing, an unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations, imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama.[2]
Her writing often reflects her Catholic faith, and frequently examines questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.
Early life and education
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FLANNERY O'CONNOR
writer. författare av essäer. novelist. author.
1992 Inductee, Georgia Women of Achievement
"The truth does not change according to our ability to stomach it."
- Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah in 1925. She spent most of her childhood there, the daughter of staunch Roman Catholic parents. Catholics were a minority group at that time, and even as a child in parochial school, Flannery was aware of being regarded as somehow different. Though in her later years many of her artistic contemporaries regarded religious orthodoxy freakish, Flannery never lost her vital connection to her faith and her church.
While still young, the Great Dep
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Gothic Literature in Special Collections
Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925- August 3, 1964) was an American author whose novels and shorts stories were typically written in the Southern Gothic style. Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. O'Connor’s work is particularly steeped in the Grotesque, a subgenre of Gothic literature. Characters with physical deformities feature heavily in the Grotesque. Often their physical disfigurements serve as markers of a corrupt moral compass and readers engage in the discrepancy between perceived "normalcy" and the realities beneath that assumption.
The Literature and Rare Books collection holds correspondence between Flannery O'Connor and author Katherine Anne Porter in the Katherine Anne Porter papers. The correspondence is of a personal nature and might not directly mention O'Connor's work