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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) 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.
Jun 15, 2020 · In 1943, eighteen-year-old Mary Flannery O’Connor went north on a summer trip. Growing up in Georgia—she spent her childhood in Savannah, and went to high school in Milledgeville—she saw...
Mary Flannery is a writer and medievalist who works on the literature and culture of late-medieval England. She currently holds a Swiss National Science Foundation Eccellenza Professorial Fellowship at the University of Bern, where she is investigating obscenity in different editions of The Canterbury Tales produced over the last three hundred ...
Apr 30, 2024 · Mrs. O’Connor was extremely protective of “Mary Flannery.” Twice, Mr. Ridley and I tried to get Flannery to go out and eat with us, because I yearned for some good talk without unceasing ...
Jul 10, 2002 · Born of the marriage of two of Georgia’s oldest Catholic families, O’Connor was a devout believer whose small but impressive body of fiction presents the soul’s struggle with what she called the “stinking mad shadow of Jesus.” Early Life and Education.
Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25th, 1925 to Edward Francis O’Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor. She described herself as a “pigeon-toed child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I’ll-bite-you complex.”
Major 20th-century American writer whose work is celebrated for its unflinching, grotesquely comic, moral vision. Name variations: Mary Flannery O'Connor. Pronunciation: FLAN-er-y.
