When I first read stories by Flannery O’Connor in college, I was thoroughly horrified by the violence. The classic story most ...

The writer has the uncanny ability to bring people of all stripes together in one place — saints and sinners alike.

One hundred years after Flannery O' Connor's birth, she has been miscast at two extremes, either as a racist or as a saint.

She’s not to everyone’s taste. Tuesday was the 100th birthday of the writer Flannery O’Connor. She’s got her own volume in ...