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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 · 213,641 ratings · 18,400 reviews · 210 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.16 avg rating — 50,107 ratings — published 1955 — 2 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 — 41,002 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 — 38,249 ratings — published 1952 — 249 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 — 22,234 ratings — published 1965 — 110 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 — 15,710 ratings — published 1960 — 7 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 (Casebook) by Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Asals (Editor) 3.89 avg rating — 11,260 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 — 3,943 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 — 3,496 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 — 3,345 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 — 2,375 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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December 2016 New School Classic Poll

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone by J.K. Rowling, 320 pgs, 1997

56 votes, 21.1%

White Fang by Jack London, 252 pages, 1906

43 votes, 16.2%

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33 votes, 12.4%

Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pgs, 1995

32 votes, 12.0%

Swann's Way by Marcel Proust, 468 pgs, 1913

25 votes, 9.4%

Birdsong by Sebastian Faulks, 483 pgs, 1993

16 votes, 6.0%

The Ice Palace by Tarjei Vesaas, 176 pgs, 1960

13 votes, 4.9%

Queer by William S. Burroughs, 160 pgs, 1985

13 votes, 4.9%

Everything That Rises Must Converge: Stories by Flannery O'Connor, 269 pgs, 1965

11 votes, 4.1%

The Good Soldier by Ford Madox Ford, 368 pgs, 1915

10 votes, 3.8%

The Vagabond by Colette, 252 pgs, 1910

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4 votes, 1.5%

266 total votes

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