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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: 4.12 · 196,566 ratings · 15,664 reviews · 193 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 46,616 ratings — published 1955 — 138 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 — 39,532 ratings — published 1971 — 91 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 — 34,231 ratings — published 1952 — 226 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) 4.23 avg rating — 20,994 ratings — published 1965 — 107 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 — 14,183 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) 3.86 avg rating — 11,154 ratings — published 1949 — 27 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 — 3,697 ratings — published 1969 — 46 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 4.49 avg rating — 3,375 ratings — published 1988 — 7 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) 4.13 avg rating — 3,021 ratings — published 2013 — 3 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 Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 2,050 ratings — published 1979 — 26 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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May Group Read, 2012, Pre-1962

Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor

15 votes, 32.6%

To Kill a Mockingbird by Harper Lee

10 votes, 21.7%

All the King's Men by Robert Penn Warren

6 votes, 13.0%

The Moviegoer by Walker Percy

6 votes, 13.0%

The Hamlet by William Faulkner

4 votes, 8.7%

A Curtain of Green and Other Stories

3 votes, 6.5%

Lie Down in Darkness by William Styron

2 votes, 4.3%

46 total votes

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