Flannery oconnor author biography

Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century. Born of the marriage of two of Georgia’s oldest Catholic families, O’Connor was a devout believer whose small but impressive body of fiction presents the soul’s struggle with what she called the “stinking mad shadow of Jesus.”

Early Life and Education

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925, to Regina Cline and Edward F. O’Connor. She began her education in the city’s parochial schools. After the family’s move to Milledgeville in 1938, she continued her schooling at the Peabody Laboratory School associated with Georgia State College for Women (GSCW), now Georgia College and State University. When she was fifteen, O’Connor, an only child, lost her father to systemic lupus erythematosus, the disease that woul

Flannery O'Connor - New Georgia Encyclopedia

Brief Biography - Georgia Historical Society

Flannery O’Connor (born March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia, U.S.—died August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia) was an American novelist and short-story writer whose works, usually set in the rural American South and often treating of alienation, concern the relationship between the individual and God.

A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor - TAN Books

Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist.

Biography of Flannery O'Connor, American Novelist - ThoughtCo

Flannery O’Connor is considered one of America’s greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century.

Flannery O’Connor, author of Southern Gothic Fiction

Flannery O'Connor studied writing at the University of Iowa and published “The Geranium,” her first short story, in 1946.