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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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Average rating: 4.12 · 198,530 ratings · 15,995 reviews · 200 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories by Flannery O'Connor, Lauren Groff (Goodreads Author) (Introduction) 4.17 avg rating — 46,883 ratings — published 1955 — 134 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 4.39 avg rating — 39,760 ratings — published 1971 — 40 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 3.83 avg rating — 34,680 ratings — published 1952 — 231 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) 4.23 avg rating — 21,160 ratings — published 1965 — 107 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 4.08 avg rating — 14,326 ratings — published 1960 — 151 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 by Flannery O'Connor, Frederick Asals (Editor) 3.85 avg rating — 11,392 ratings — published 1949 — 27 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 — 3,728 ratings — published 1969 — 46 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
	Collected Works: Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything That Rises Must Converge / Essays and Letters 4.49 avg rating — 3,389 ratings — published 1988 — 9 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 — 3,064 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
	The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor by Flannery O'Connor, Sally Fitzgerald (Editor) 4.47 avg rating — 2,058 ratings — published 1979 — 25 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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April 2018 Short Story Poll

White Nights by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 82 pages, 1848

53 votes, 14.9%

A Good Man Is Hard To Find by Flannery O'Connor, 24 pages, 1955

44 votes, 12.4%

The Grey Woman by Elizabeth Gaskell, 52 pages, 1861

37 votes, 10.4%

Waiting for Godot by Samuel Beckett, 109 pages, 1953

35 votes, 9.9%

Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead by Tom Stoppard, 126 pages, 1966

33 votes, 9.3%

Chess Story by Stefan Zweig, 104 pages, 1941

31 votes, 8.7%

The Return of the Soldier by Rebecca West, 112 pages, 1918

29 votes, 8.2%

A Modest Proposal by Jonathan Swift, 48 pages, 1729

25 votes, 7.0%

Fences by August Wilson, 101 pages, 1986

19 votes, 5.4%

A Simple Heart by Gustave Flaubert, 72 pages, 1877

16 votes, 4.5%

The Most Dangerous Game by Richard Connell, 48 pages, 1924

16 votes, 4.5%

The Dialogue of the Dogs by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, 112 pages, 1613

12 votes, 3.4%

Castle Rackrent by Maria Edgeworth, 87 pages, 1800

5 votes, 1.4%

355 total votes

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