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Flannery O'Connor
Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
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culture · American writer (1925–1964) · writer · novelist · essayist · film screenwriter · also Flannery O'Connor, (Mary) Flannery O’Connor, O'Connor
Born 25 March 1925 · Died 3 August 1964 · Q234579
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2026· 4 entries
“[A]nything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case, it is going to be called realistic.”
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Legacy obituary: Sandra O'Connor Obituary and Online Memorial (2026)
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Irish Examiner: Annmarie O'Connor: Parkinson's is progressive — for me that means meeting it halfway
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2025· 1 entry
The Guardian: Flannery O’Connor at 100: should we still read her?
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2024· 2 entries
The Guardian: ‘Acid humour was a big part’: the life and legacy of Flannery O’Connor
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O'Connor's unfinished novel Why Do the Heathen Rage
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2023· 3 entries
The biographical film Wildcat was released
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“has five hundred factual errors.”
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Two barrels full of paintings on wood tile by O'Connor were discovered
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2020· 1 entry
Flannery O'Connor Hall was renamed in honor of activist Sister Thea Bowman
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2012· 4 entries
The Guardian: Reading group: strange bodies in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
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The Guardian: Reading group: sin and symbolism in Flannery O'Connor's Wise Blood
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The Guardian: December's Reading group: Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor
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The Guardian: A brief survey of the short story part 43: Flannery O'Connor
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2011· 1 entry
The Guardian: A fresh look at Flannery O'Connor
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2009· 1 entry
The Guardian: Is Flannery O'Connor a Catholic writer?
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1992· 1 entry
Awarded Georgia Women of Achievement (1992).
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1987· 1 entry
With the stipulation that they not be released to the public for 20 years
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1972· 1 entry
Awarded National Book Award for The Complete Stories (1972).
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1964· 2 entries
At the age of 39 in Baldwin County Hospital
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Died 1964-08-03.
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1960· 1 entry
And outwardly supported the work of Martin Luther King Jr
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1957· 1 entry
Awarded O. Henry Award (1957).
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1955· 1 entry
Betty Hester, an Atlanta file clerk, wrote O'Connor a letter, expressing admiration for her work
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1951· 1 entry
Moved to Andalusia Farm, which is now a museum dedicated to O'Connor's work
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1949· 1 entry
O'Connor met and eventually accepted an invitation to stay with Robert Fitzgerald (a well-known translator of the classics) and his wife, Sally, in Ridgefield, Connecticut
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1945· 1 entry
Was accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writers' Workshop at the University of Iowa, where she went, at first, to study journalism
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1940· 1 entry
O'Connor and her family moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, where they initially lived with her mother's family at the so-called 'Cline Mansion,' in town
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1937· 1 entry
Her father was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, which led to his eventual death on February 1, 1941
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1925· 2 entries
In Savannah, Georgia, the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor, a real estate agent, and Regina Cline, both of Irish descent
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Born 1925-03-25.
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