Flannery O'Connor
Novelist, Author
1925 – 1964
Who was Flannery O'Connor?
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
Her Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and was named the "Best of the National Book Awards" by internet visitors in 2009.
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- Born
- Mar 25, 1925
Savannah - Also known as
- Mary Flannery O'Connor
- Parents
- Religion
- Catholicism
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- Georgia College & State University
- University of Iowa
- Iowa Writers' Workshop
- Lived in
- Savannah
- Ridgefield
- Milledgeville
- Died
- Aug 3, 1964
Milledgeville
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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