Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American author. She was born in Savannah, Georgia.

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March 25 - 1925 - August 3 - 1964 - American - Savannah, Georgia

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Considered an important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels, 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and grotesques as characters. A "born" Roman Catholic, her writing is deeply informed by the sacramental, and the Thomist notion that the created world is charged with God.

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Southern - William Faulkner - Southern Gothic - Grotesques - Roman Catholic - Thomist

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