(Mary) Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925-August 3, 1964) born in Savannah, Georgia, was an American author, whose published works include: Wise Blood, 1952; A Good Man is Hard to Find, 1955; The Violent Bear It Away, 1960; Everything That Rises Must Converge, 1965; and Mystery and Manners, 1969. Her work, Complete Stories, was awarded the National Book Award for fiction in 1972.
Flannery O'Connor stated in a talk at Notre Dame University in the spring of 1957:
<Southern culture has fostered a type of imagination that has been influenced by Christianity of a not too unorthodox kind and by a strong devotion to the Bible, which has kept our minds attached to the concrete and the living symbol.> 1925FO001
In Granville Hick's symposium The Living Novel, Flannery O'Connor wrote:
<For I am no disbeliever in the spiritual purpose and no vague believer.
I see from the standpoint of Christian orthodoxy. This means that for me the meaning of life is centered in our Redemption by Christ and what I see in the world in relation to that.> 1925FO002
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American Quotations by William J. Federer, 2024, All Rights Reserved, Permission granted to use with acknowledgement.
1925FO001. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, 1957, in a talk at Notre Dame University. John Bartlett, Bartlett's Familiar Quotations (Boston: Little, Brown and Company, 1855, 1980), p. 905.
1925FO002. William J. Federer, American Quotations (2014). (Mary) Flannery O'Connor, in Granville Hick's symposium The Living Novel. John Wakeman, editor, World Authors, 1950-1970 (New York: The H.W. Wilson Company, 1975), p. 1076.