COMMENTARY: Miss O’Connor’s embrace of the challenging vocation of writing was shaped by the vocation of suffering.

To see it in person, to see it in color and the vibrancy of it, was just so exciting.” Flannery O’Connor standing next to her 1952 self portrait. Photo: Alpha Historica / Alamy Stock Photo.

Born on March 25, 1925, O’Connor was drawn to the connection between grace and suffering, which rested at the heart of her fiction and deep Catholic faith.

Flannery O’Connor died more than six decades ago, on Aug. 3, 1964, of complications from lupus. She was only 39 years old. Today, March 25, would have been her 100th birthday, and it is an ...

The Art Works in Flannery O’Connor’s Attic In an old Georgia mansion, a team of the writer’s devotees found a dusty wooden box: inside were two dozen of her never-seen oil paintings.

O’Connor believed that although we are fallen, we are still good, and if we freely cooperate with God’s grace, our nature can be perfected in union with him.

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 ...

Flannery O’Connor’s Centennial Birthday Weekend kicks off with social mixers on Friday, March 21 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home and the Davenport House Courtyard.

Flannery O’Connor’s Centennial Birthday Weekend kicks off with social mixers on Friday, March 21 from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. at the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home and the Davenport House Courtyard.

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 is a world-renowned icon of southern gothic fiction — but she was also a visual artist, and a newly discovered collection of her work will soon be unveiled to the world. Mary ...