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Flannery O'Connor

Born

in Savannah, Georgia, The United States

March 25, 1925

Died

August 03, 1964

Genre

Fiction, Short Stories, Essays

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Critics note novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and short stories, collected in such works as A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), of American writer Mary Flannery O'Connor for their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style.

The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia.

O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her pow ...more

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Flannery O'Connor’s books

Average rating: 4.1 · 216,154 ratings · 18,801 reviews · 209 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.15 avg rating — 50,647 ratings — published 1955 — 141 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Complete Stories 4.38 avg rating — 41,157 ratings — published 1971 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Wise Blood 3.82 avg rating — 38,734 ratings — published 1952 — 239 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Robert Fitzgerald (Introduction) 4.22 avg rating — 22,392 ratings — published 1965 — 115 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Violent Bear It Away 4.07 avg rating — 15,885 ratings — published 1960 — 168 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Asals (Editor & Introduction) 3.88 avg rating — 11,652 ratings — published 1949 — 5 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Editor), Robert Fitzgerald (Editor) 4.27 avg rating — 3,972 ratings — published 1969 — 50 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works 4.49 avg rating — 3,507 ratings — published 1988 — 8 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	A Prayer Journal by Flannery O'Connor, W.A. Sessions (Editor) 4.13 avg rating — 3,366 ratings — published 2013 — 12 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	3 by Flannery O'Connor: The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Introduction) 4.29 avg rating — 2,381 ratings — published 1960 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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April 2015 New School Classic Group Read

What book should we read for our April 2015 New School Classic group read?

1920, The Age of Innocence by Edith Wharton, 305 pages

12 votes, 25.5%

1982, Schindler's List by Thomas Keneally, 429 pages

7 votes, 14.9%

1957, The Leopard by Giuseppe Tomasi di Lampedusa, 320 pages

5 votes, 10.6%

1939, And Then There Were None by Agatha Christie, 264 pages

5 votes, 10.6%

1954, 100 Selected Poems by E.E. Cummings, 128 pages

4 votes, 8.5%

1952, Wise Blood by Flannery O'Connor, 236 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1931, Light in August by William Faulkner, 507 pages

3 votes, 6.4%

1903, The Way of All Flesh by Samuel Butler, 320 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1988, Breathing Lessons by Anne Tyler, 350 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1949, The Sheltering Sky by Paul Bowles, 342 pages

2 votes, 4.3%

1921, The Black Moth by Georgette Heyer, 274 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

1 vote, 2.1%

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