o'connor, flannery

A collection of essays in which Flannery O'Connor explores the experience of raising peacocks, teaching literature, regional writing, and religion.

Presents a biography of writer Flannery O'Connor, including information her early life growing up in the South, her struggles with the debilitating disease Lupus, and her literary achievements.

Studies the importance of desert life and ascetic spirituality in the fiction of Flannery O'Connor, discussing her increasing fascination with fourth-century Christians during the last thirteen years of her life, when she was confined to the family farm in rural Georgia due to ill health.

Explores how four twentieth-century American Catholic authors, Flannery O'Connor, Thomas Merton, Walker Percy, and Dorothy Day, came to believe the best way to explore the quandries of religious faith was in writing.

Thirty one short stories that offer a picture of the Deep South.

Chronicles the life of the twentieth-century American author, Flannery O'Connor, and describes her childhood in Georgia, education, influential personal relationships, accomplishments and setbacks, and other related topics.