Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia, and raised in the devoutly Catholic enclave of Milledgeville. She studied at the Georgia State College for Women and the Iowa Writers' Workshop, where she began publishing the stories that would establish her reputation. At twenty-five she was diagnosed with lupus—the same disease that had killed her father—and returned to the family farm, Andalusia, where she spent the remaining fourteen years of her life raising peacocks and writing fiction of astonishing power. This author hub collects 4 works in the Canon Compass ranking, led by A Good Man Is Hard to Find.