Flannery O'Connor

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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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Flannery O’Connor 53
Flannery O'Connor canonical 16
Mary Flannery O'Connor 2

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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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The Comforts of Home author Flannery O'Connor
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Why Do the Heathen Rage? author Flannery O'Connor
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Bishop Rayber createdBy Flannery O'Connor
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