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Flannery O'Connor was a famous writer in the south, she was born in Savannah, Georgia and her father worked in the real state and the construction industry for a while but died in 1941. Her mother came from a higher class family her father was mayer for a while in a different town. When the family moved to Milledgeville when she was 12, and attended Peabody High School. When she graduated she attended Georgia State University and earned a degree a masters in fine arts literature. After this she continued to study at Iowa State University. After several years she completed a novel in 1952 and another in 1960. One of her books even go a 2 million dollar screen play deal in 1978. However earlier in the 1950's she suffered her first round of lupus and moved back to Milledgeville to stay with her mother she continued to write and lecture throughout her life here She ultimately died in 1964 due to complications of her lupus disease.

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