Flannery O’Connor, Author
- Bio: 1925-1964; born in Savannah, Georgia; attended Catholic schools as a youth, in keeping with her family’s faith; finished an accelerated undergraduate program at Georgia State College for Women and studied fiction at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop; went on to publish two novels and two short story collections; known for her sharp social critiques of affectation, triviality, and religious hypocrisy, O’Connor has sustained criticism in recent years for the racist attitudes displayed in her letters; had and died from lupus, the same autoimmune illness that had killed her father, at 39 years old; posthumous recipient of the 1972 National Book Award for The Complete Stories
- Other Works: Wise Blood (1952); A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955); The Violent Bear It Away (1960); Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965); The Complete Stories (1971)