By: Sarah McNiff “ I am a writer because writing is the thing I know best.” -Flannery O’Connor

 Mary Flannery O’Connor was born on March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia.  Edward and Regina – her parents.  Roman Catholic  1938 – Milledgeville, Georgia.  Father’s death at age 15.

 Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College and State University)  The Corinthian  Cartoonist  Writings which showed satire and comedy.  State University of Iowa (now the University of Iowa)  World Famous Writer’s Program led by Paul Engle.

 Accepted to Yaddo  Her first novel, Wise Blood, was published in  O’Connor herself called, this novel “unconventional.”

 In 1955, her short story collection called A Good Man is Hard to Find was published.  Includes texts from class, “The Life You Save May Be Your Own” and “Good Country People.”  Her second novel, The Violent Bear it Away, was published in 1960.

“A typical Flannery O’Connor story consists of its most vital level in people talking, clucking their endless reiterations of clichés about life, death and the universe.” (Klinkowitz and Wallace, 2521)  Unconventional.  Violence and shock tactics  Southern dialect  Dark humor

 The Geranium (1946)  Wise Blood (1952)  A Good Man is Hard to Find (1955)  The Violent Bear it Away (1960)  Mystery and Manner (1960)  Everything that Rises Must Converge (1965)  The Habit of Being (1979)

 Lupus -1950, survives  Andalusia – childhood home  Surgery 1964 for fibroid tumor  Flannery O’Connor died on August,

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