Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O’Connor (1925 - 1964)AuthorProphet of LettersLiterary Rebel“Grace changes us and the change is painful”In a post-war America crowded with great Southern regional writers tinged with Gothic elements such as Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers and Harper Lee, one seems to continually stand out. Flannery O’Connor grabs every new generation and holds their attention through a combination of her writing virtuosity, premature death and the Catholic faith upon which rested the totality of her life.O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia to parents of Irish descent. Her father, a real estate agent, was diagnosed with Lupus and died shortly after the family moved to Andalusia Farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. She began writing at an early age with a talent for cartooning which, along with her naturally wry sense of humor helped form the basis for the sardonic and surreal nature of the characters who populated her mature writing.In 1946, O’Connor was accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writers