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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an United States|American author. She was born in Savannah, Georgia. Mary Flannery O???Connor was born in 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. She was the only child of Edward F. and Regina Cline O???Connor. Her father was diagnosed with Lupus erythematosus|lupus in 1937; he died on the first of February, 1941. Mary Flannery was devastated, and rarely spoke of him in later years. Flannery described herself as a "pigeon-toed only child with a receding chin and a you-leave-me-alone-or-I'll-bite-you complex." As a child she was in the local newspapers when a chicken that she owned could walk backwards. She said, "That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. It's all been downhill from there." O'Connor attended Peabody High School, from which she graduated in 1942. She entered Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College & State University), where she majored in English and Sociology (the latter a perspective she satirized effectively in novels such as The Violent Bear It Away). In 1946 Flannery O'Connor was accepted into the prestigious Iowa Writer's Workshop. In 1949 O'Connor met and eventually accepted an invitation to stay with Robert Fitzgerald (translator of Greek epic plays and poems, including Oedipus the King|Oedipus Rex and both the Odyssey and the Iliad) and his wife, Sally, in rural Connecticut. In 1951 she was diagnosed with Lupus erythematosus|lupus, and subsequently returned to her ancestral farm http://www.andalusiafarm.org Andalusia in Milledgeville. There she raised and nurtured some 100 peafowl. Obsessed with birds of all kinds, she raised ducks, hens, geese, and any sort of exotic bird she could obtain, as well as incorporated images of peacocks often in her books. Despite the fact that she lived a rather sheltered life, her writing reveals an almost uncanny grasp of the nuances of human behavior. She died August 3, 1964 at Baldwin County Hospital and was buried in Milledgeville, Georgia. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor would write two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and Grotesque|grotesque characters. A "born" Roman Catholic, her writing is deeply informed by the sacramental, and by the Thomist notion that the created world is charged with God. The Flannery O'Connor Award for Short Fiction, named in honor of O'Connor, is a prize given annually to an outstanding collection of short stories.
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