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Author Irwin H. Streight has penned "Flannery and the Grammys," which documents how O’Connor and her works have influenced popular musical artists. Within genres like folk, blues, rock, gospel ...
COMMENTARY: Miss O’Connor’s embrace of the challenging vocation of writing was shaped by the vocation of suffering.
Jennifer Frey beautifully captures the Catholic vision of reality in “Flannery O’Connor’s Tales of Evil and Grace” (Houses of Worship, March 21). The devil continually tempts us to skip ...
An unfinished Flannery O’Connor novel hit shelves in 2024. In her lifetime, O’Connor published a number of short stories and two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) .
Literary icon Flannery O’Connor is best known for her Southern Gothic fiction and short stories including “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Wise Blood,” but she was also a visual artist.
Flannery O’Connor’s 1952 self-portrait is the star of an exhibition in Milledgeville, Ga. She “stares at us with the deadpan of a Byzantine saint, a golden sun hat engulfing her head like a ...
Streight, who is based in Ontario, Canada, will be trekking down to Savannah for a lecture on O'Connor at the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home (FOCH) on Sept. 15.