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Flannery O'Connor Wanted to Shake Her Readers Awake. Her Family Wanted Her to Write the Next 'Gone With the Wind'

Summary by Smithsonian Mag
This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor revealed how candid confrontations with darkness lead to moments of reckoning

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Pittsburgh Post-GazettePittsburgh Post-Gazette
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David Mills: Flannery O'Connor knew the grandmother and the serial killer

She’s not to everyone’s taste. Tuesday was the 100th birthday of the writer Flannery O’Connor. She’s got her own volume in the...

·Pittsburgh, United States
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America MagazineAmerica Magazine
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Remembering Flannery O’Connor (and her contributions to America magazine) on her 100th birthday

Perhaps no author’s name has appeared in 'America' more often than Flannery O’Connor’s over the years, from a 1956 editorial through to a story just last week.

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Smithsonian MagSmithsonian Mag
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Flannery O'Connor Wanted to Shake Her Readers Awake. Her Family Wanted Her to Write the Next 'Gone With the Wind'

This year marks the writer's 100th birthday. Through fiction anchored in her Southern background and Catholic faith, O'Connor revealed how candid confrontations with darkness lead to moments of reckoning

·United States
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National Catholic RegisterNational Catholic Register
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Flannery O’Connor Turns 100: A Century of Grace and Grit

Atlanta History Center Flannery O’Connor COMMENTARY: The Catholic writer’s faith shone through such suffering when she said, ‘I can with one eye squinted take it all as a blessing ...’

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catholicworldreport.comcatholicworldreport.com
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Reading Flannery O’Connor for the first time

Reading Flannery O’Connor requires a stout heart and a strong stomach. In her short life, before she died of terminal lupus, she wrote two novels and roughly two dozen short stories that continue to shock [...]

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Georgia Public BroadcastingGeorgia Public Broadcasting
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See inside the childhood home of Flannery O'Connor, born 100 years ago in Savannah

A pioneer of Southern Gothic literature, Flannery O'Connor spent her first 13 years of life in her hometown of Savannah.

·Georgia, United States
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Georgia Public Broadcasting broke the news in Georgia, United States on Tuesday, March 25, 2025.
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