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Flannery O'Connor

Born

in Savannah, Georgia, The United States

March 25, 1925

Died

August 03, 1964

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Essays

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Critics note novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and short stories, collected in such works as A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), of American writer Mary Flannery O'Connor for their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style.

The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia.

O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her pow ...more

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Average rating: 4.13 · 184,349 ratings · 13,999 reviews · 179 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.18 avg rating — 43,988 ratings — published 1955 — 58 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories 4.39 avg rating — 38,392 ratings — published 1971 — 88 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wise Blood 3.83 avg rating — 31,300 ratings — published 1952 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Fitzgerald (Introduction) 4.24 avg rating — 19,948 ratings — published 1965 — 112 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violent Bear It Away 4.08 avg rating — 13,025 ratings — published 1960 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Asals (Editor) 3.88 avg rating — 9,767 ratings — published 1949 — 30 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Editor), Robert Fitzgerald (Editor) 4.28 avg rating — 3,541 ratings — published 1969 — 51 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters 4.51 avg rating — 3,256 ratings — published 1988 — 6 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor, W.A. Sessions (Editor) 4.11 avg rating — 2,769 ratings — published 2013 — 9 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Introduction) 4.30 avg rating — 2,284 ratings — published 1960 — 42 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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