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    Six Things You (Probably) Didn’t Know About Flannery O’Connor

    by Benjamin B. Alexander Nov 01, 2019 3 minutes

    Flannery O’Connor is a master of the American short story, joining since her untimely death in 1964, Hawthorne, Poe, Hemingway, and Faulkner in the literary canon. Now a fixture in textbooks and collections, she composed on an old typewriter with bookshelves nearby of modern fiction, philosophy, and theology unique among American writers. The novels of William Faulkner, the American Virgil, beside the writings of the angelic doctor Thomas Aquinas testified to wide study. Here are some interesting observations I discovered in editing Good Things Out of Nazareth.

    O’Connor was amused about possibly acting in one of her stories

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