Flannery+O'Connor

Flannery O’Connor’s genre was American southern gothic. Her works consisted of only two novels, essays, and 32 short stories. Even though she did mostly three kinds of works, she was more noticed by her short-stories. Her two novels were Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. All of her short-stories were published into books, //A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories, // and // [|Everything That Rises Must Converge] Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose //, //The Complete Stories //, //The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor //, //Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works. // Because she wrote mainly in the Southern gothic style most of her characters were characterized as grotesque.
 * Flannery O’Connor was born in [|Savannah], GA on March 25, 1925. She was the only child of ****  Edward F. O'Connor and Regina Cline O’Connor. At the age of five O’Connor taught a chicken to walk backwards. Because of her trained chicken the [|Pathé News] people filmed her with the chicken, and that became O’Connor’s first experience as a celebrity. Ten years afterwards in 1941 her father died of lupus. O’Connor was so devastated that even in later years she rarely spoke of him. One year afterwards she graduated from Peabody Laboratory School. She went to, what is now, [|Georgia College & State University] for an accelerated three-year program, and graduated June 1945 with a Social Sciences degree. In 1946, one year after she graduated O’Connor was accepted into the prestigious [|Iowa Writers' Workshop] . Three years later, in 1946 met and moved in with [|Robert Fitzgerald] and his wife sally. In [|1951] she was diagnosed with disseminated [|lupus] , because of that she returned to her ancestral farm there she raised birds and wrote many works until her death on August 3, 1964.

Flanney o’connor is still a very influential author. Flannery won many awards for her works. One of the awards was given to her in 1972 for the //The Complete Stories,// a book with all her short stories in it. This award is rarely given to someone who has died. Because of that one can tell that o’connor was a great writer. Eleven years later in 1983  ** ** the Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction was introduced in honor of flannery o’connor short stories. The award was made to encourage young author s to share their work with others. This award has two winners one for short stories, and the other for **** [|novellas]. This just goes to show how an influential author O’Connor still is. **

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