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O'Connor, Flannery
(1925-1964) American writer. Flannery O'Connor's novels and short stories focus on humanity's spiritual deformity and flight from redemption earning her a unique place in 20th-century American fiction.
Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor was an American writer, known for her two novels, 32 short stories and essays--written in a Southern Gothic style. She once said: "anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic."