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Flannery O'Connor //By: Amanda Countryman//

Flannery O’Connor was a Southern Gothic writer in the south during the 1950’s. O’Connor was born in Georgia as an only child in 1925. Flannery attended Georgia State College for Women and the University of Iowa publishing her first short story at the age of 21 called //The Geranium//. In 1952 her first novel was published called //Wise Blood// following a story line of religion. When asked why her books center around Protestant religion instead of Catholicism, which is the religion that she was born into, O’Connor said “They express their belief I diverse kinds of dramatic action which is obvious enough for me to catch. I can’t write about anything subtle” (O’Connor). She is remembered predominantly for her shorts stories one of the most popular being //A Good Man Is Hard To Find, and Other Stories// which was published in 1995. In 1978 Michel Fitzgerald spend $2,000,000 to produce a screenplay of her novel //Wise Blood.// She died in 1964 after a long battle with Lupus.

Work Cited Liukkonen, Petri. “Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964).” //Books and Writers//. 2008. Web. 30 Nov. 2009.