Flannery O'Connor

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American Roman Catholic essayist human novelist short story writer writer

Flannery O'Connor was a 20th-century American writer known for her Southern Gothic short stories and novels that explore morality, faith, and violence through darkly comic, often grotesque characters.

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Mary Flannery O'Connor	2

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American Roman Catholic ⓘ essayist ⓘ human ⓘ novelist ⓘ short story writer ⓘ writer ⓘ
awardReceived	National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ
birthName	Flannery O'Connor self-linksurface differs ⓘ surface form: Mary Flannery O'Connor
causeOfDeath	lupus ⓘ
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America ⓘ
dateOfBirth	1925-03-25 ⓘ
dateOfDeath	1964-08-03 ⓘ
educatedAt	Wesleyan College ⓘ surface form: Georgia State College for Women Iowa Writers' Workshop ⓘ University of Iowa ⓘ
ethnicGroup	Irish American ⓘ
familyName	O'Connor ⓘ
fieldOfWork	fiction ⓘ religious themes in literature ⓘ short story ⓘ
genre	Christian literature ⓘ Southern Gothic ⓘ
givenName	Flannery ⓘ Mary ⓘ
hasInfluenced	Alice Walker ⓘ Cormac McCarthy ⓘ Joyce Carol Oates ⓘ Toni Morrison ⓘ
languageOfWorkOrName	English ⓘ
mannerOfDeath	natural causes ⓘ
movement	Catholic literary revival ⓘ Southern Gothic ⓘ
name	Flannery O'Connor self-link ⓘ
notableWork	A Good Man Is Hard to Find ⓘ Everything That Rises Must Converge ⓘ Mystery and Manners ⓘ The Violent Bear It Away ⓘ Wise Blood ⓘ
placeOfBirth	Savannah ⓘ surface form: Savannah, Georgia, United States
placeOfDeath	Milledgeville, Georgia ⓘ surface form: Milledgeville, Georgia, United States
posthumousAwardReceived	National Book Award for Fiction ⓘ
religion	Roman Catholicism ⓘ
residence	Milledgeville, Georgia ⓘ surface form: Milledgeville, Georgia, United States Savannah ⓘ surface form: Savannah, Georgia, United States
sexOrGender	female ⓘ
workLocation	Milledgeville, Georgia ⓘ surface form: Milledgeville, Georgia, United States
writingStyle	dark comedy ⓘ exploration of morality, faith, and violence ⓘ use of grotesque characters ⓘ

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