Great Writers: Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor was not only one of the great Southern Writers of the 20th Century, she as a woman was a devout Catholic in a Protestant fundamental South, a woman who studied at great Northern universities and lived in the South, a writer who exposed Southern racism against blacks, Catholics, and immigrants, a writer who embraced characters she herself described as "grotesques."  All of her villains had a chance for "redemption through grace."  Not all of them accepted this gift.

She was a hit because she's so surprising.  She's a realist who believed in an ideal.

Four for Flannery:  Good Country People, The Life You Save May Be Your Own, A Good Man is Hard to Find, and The Displaced Person are offered in this Short Story Unit.

73 pages, 36,058 pages; a few images.