Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor
	In 1947
Born	Mary Flannery O'Connor; March 25, 1925; Savannah, Georgia, US
Died	August 3, 1964 (aged 39); Milledgeville, Georgia, US
Resting place	Memory Hill Cemetery, Milledgeville, Georgia
Occupation	Novelist; short story writer; essayist;
Period	1946–1964
Genre	Southern Gothic
Subject	Morality; Catholicism; grace; transcendence;
Literary movement	Christian realism
Notable works	Wise Blood; The Violent Bear It Away; A Good Man Is Hard to Find;

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.

She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama.

Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of Catholicism-defined morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.

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