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 * __Flannery O'Connor__ **

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Flannery O'Connor is known as one of America’s best fiction writers and apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century. Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia March 25, 1925, the only child of a Catholic family. In 1950 O'Connor suffered her first attack from disseminated lupus, a debilitating blood disease that had killed her father. In spite of the illness, O'Connor continued to write and occasionally she lectured about creative writing in colleges. According to Flannery O’Connor "I have enough energy to write with and as that is all I have any business doing anyhow, I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing. What you have to measure out, you come to observe more closely, or so I tell myself" (an interview in 1952). Flannery O'Connor belonged to the Southern Gothic tradition that focused on the decaying South and the messed up people in it. O'Connor's short stories have been considered her finest work. With A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories (1955) she came to be regarded as a master of the form.=====

Works Cited //Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964)//. Petri Liukkonen, 2008. Web. 11 Nov. 2009. .  //Literature//. Sarah Gordon, 3 Mar. 2009. Web. 30 Nov. 2009. .