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Flannery O' Conner

Mary Flannery O' Connor

"One writer that invites you to go beyond words is Flannery O'Connor. The contradictions of violence and faith in her fiction writings distinguishes her among Southern writers and makes one wonder who she was and where she was from" (McGovern n.p). O' Connor was born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. She was an only child. She started high school in Georgia, but was unable to finish because her family move to Milledgeville in 1938. Flannery led a rather uneventful life that was focused almost exclusively on her vocation as a writer and devotion to her Catholic faith. She held no jobs, subsisting solely on grants, fellowships and royalties from her writing. Her father was discovered to have lupus and died three years later. She attended the Peabody high school and the Georgia state college for women. O'Connor decided to further extend her education by going to the University of Iowa. There she began to attend writer's workshops and wrote the first......


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