A Birthday Celebration for Flannery O’Connor

On March 25, 1925, Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, and her family later moved to Milledgeville, Georgia, in 1938. She was most renowned for her short stories, which brought her three O. Henry awards for short fiction. In 1992 O’Connor was inducted as an inaugural honoree into Georgia Women of Achievement, and in 2000 she was inducted as a charter member into the Georgia Writers Hall of Fame.

You can read more about Flannery O’Connor in her article in the New Georgia Encyclopedia and in her article in Encyclopædia Britannica. Search for her name or her works in the Discover GALILEO search box to find biographical information and criticism.

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Image from the Vanishing Georgia collection in the Digital Library of Georgia