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Flannery O’Connor has used religion extensively in her work. She is described as a devout Catholic in her biography at Georgia College & State University website . In American Public Media, Speaking of Faith Podcast Paul Ellie a catholic author talks about Flannery O’Connor and other prominent catholic fiction writers . The others are Dorothy Day, Thomas Merton, and Walker Percy. He says among them only O’connor was born Catholic. Although they never met they used to correspond with each other.
“Flannery O'Connor had a breakthrough as a young writer of fiction when she realized the stories of the Old Testament threw a special light on the rural South where she was living.� Ellie says
In O’Connor’s The Complete stories Robert Giruox,her publisher describes how O’Connor stayed in correspondence with a monk Thomas Merton. The fact that O’Connor found it important to have a Catholic monk as one of her literary contacts shows that to her catholicism was not only......

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