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Flannery O'Connor
(Writer)
[March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964] |
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Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (2009 release)
by Brad Gooch
The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed
when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published
book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and
stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically
sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's
significant friendships--with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker
Percy, and James Dickey among others--and her deeply felt convictions, as
expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and
Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as "A" in O'Connor's collected
letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence
to her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch,
in 2006. O'Connor's capacity to live fully--despite the chronic disease
that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia--is
illuminated in this engaging and authoritative biography.
Struggles Over the Word: Race and Religion in O'Connor,
Faulkner, Hurston, and Wright (2001) by Timothy
P. Caron
This literary critical study counters the usual
tendency to segregate Southern literature from African American literary
studies. Noting that William Faulkner
and Flannery O'Connor are classified as
Southern writers, whereas Zora Neale
Hurston and Richard Wright are
considered black authors, Timothy P. Caron argues for "an integrated study
of the South's literary culture." He shows that the interaction of
Southern religion and race binds these four writers together. Caron
broadens our understanding of Southern literature to include both white
and African American voices.
Sacred Groves and Ravaged Gardens: The Fiction of Eudora Welty, Carson McCullers, and Flannery O'Connor (1985) by Louise Westling
See also Carson
McCullers, Eudora Welty, and
Flannery O'Connor.
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