O'Connor was born in 1925 Savannah, Ga., on leafy Lafayette Square, still dominated by the massive Cathedral of St. John the Baptist visible from the O'Connors' doorstep. Roman Catholicism was central ...

Has any other 20th century American author with so little published output – virtually everything she wrote for publication and a few things that she didn’t fit neatly into a single Library of America ...

Brad Gooch’s rapt, authoritative “Flannery” is the first major biography of a major writer who died 44 years ago. Where is the flood of other biographical material about this mystical, ornery, ...

Janet August and Amy Atamian are happy to show off “the Flannery Room” — the upstairs guest space in their Redding home where writer Flannery O’Connor briefly lived. Until recently, they didn’t have ...

There have been many biographies of Flannery O’Connor written in the last two decades and critical studies on her work continues to grow, especially concerning O’Connor’s life and her work around ...

As I walked in my Houston neighborhood eight years ago, my Flannery O’Connor T-shirt drew the attention of a passerby. “Where’d you get that shirt?” she asked. “It says ‘Flannery O’Connor,’” I ...

A panel discussion on February 23 will feature O’Connor scholars Mark Bosco, Patricia West, and Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, who will discuss the themes of faith, race, and disability in O’Connor’s works.