Flannery O'Connor - (1925-1964)
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By Elijah CarterI. Biography Flannery O' Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah and was the only child of Edward
Francis O' Connor and Regina Cline O' Connor. She graduated from the Georgia State College for Women in 1945. She became a graduate student in the Writer's Workshop at Iowa State University. Her writings there were
described as "filled with insight about human weakness, hard and compassionate." Her stories were usually about homelessness, displacement, and homesickness. Her favorite writers were Gogol and Hawthorne.
O' Connor earned her Master's Degree at Iowa and moved to a writer's colony near Saratoga Springs, New York. After she left, she moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut where
she lived with Robert Fitzgerald and his family. She started writing Wise Blood at this time. This is when she received a severe setback. She discovered that she had lupus. Her doctor
suggested that she should move back to Georgia. She figured that she had only three years to live. During those three years she completed nine short stories that would forever show her great talent as an author. II. Sources
"Flannery O'Connor" South Comm Publishing Company, Inc.
Sep 16, 2000
"Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home" Bill McGloughlin May 15, 1997
This essay was submitted by a student of Debbie Wooten, a teacher at Bacon County High School in Alma, Georgia.
October 2, 2000 http://www.ils.unc.edu/flannery/