Flannery O'Connor was an American writer known for her Southern Gothic style, often featuring regional settings and grotesque characters to explore themes of morality and religion. Her collection, Complete Stories, received the National Book Award for Fiction posthumously.
Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist, noted for her Southern Gothic style, use of regional settings, and exploration of morality and religion. Her Complete Stories posthumously won the National Book Award for Fiction.
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| Back | Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. Quick facts: Born, Died … She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and supposedly grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfection or difference of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion or sanity) typically underpins the drama. Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic religion and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise. |
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