Flannery O'Connor

Robert McGill (University of Toronto)

Ed. by John Thieme, University of East Anglia
The Literary Encyclopedia. Volume 3.2.4: American (US) Writing and Culture: Postwar and Contemporary, 1945-present.
Vol. editors: Sofia Ahlberg (Uppsala University), Patrick Chura (University of Akron), Emory Elliott (University of California, Riverside), Dale Enggass (University of Utah), Christopher Hugh Gair (University of Glasgow), Matthew Hofer (University of New Mexico), Stephen E. Meats (Pittsburg State University), Kerry Myler (Birmingham Newman University), Justin Parks (UiT - The Arctic University of Norway), Nick Selby (University of East Anglia)

Dates

Born 25 Mar 1925
Died 3 Aug 1964
Activity 1946-1964

Places

Born in United States
Active in United States

Activities

Primary

Novelist
Story-writer

Resources

O'Connor's Works

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Mary Flannery O'Connor was born March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia to Edward Francis O'Connor Jr., a real estate agent, and Regina O'Connor,

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Cline. Both parents came from families that were prominent in Georgia's Catholic Church. In 1938 Mr O'Connor became ill with lupus erythematosis, a degenerative disease attacking the bones and immune system, for which there was no treatment at the time. He died in 1941, when Flannery was fifteen. She attended Peabody High School from 1938 to 1942. By this time she was already writing short books and submitting stories for publication, but she was also a serious cartoonist. She studied at Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College) until 1945, beginning a course in English but then switching to social science.

In 1945 she earned a

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Citation: McGill, Robert. "Flannery O'Connor". The Literary Encyclopedia. First published 08 November 2002 [https://www.litencyc.com/php/speople.php?rec=true&UID=3373, accessed 22 November 2024.]

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