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Mary Flannery O’Connor, born Savannah, Georgia, 3/25/1925, died Milledgeville, Georgia, 8/3/1964, was an American author who wrote two novels and 32 short stories. She died unmarried at age 39.

Wikipedia says -
“She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. The unsentimental acceptance or rejection of the limitations or imperfections or differences of these characters (whether attributed to disability, race, crime, religion, or sanity) typically underpins the drama.
“Her writing reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.”
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“Her daily routine was to attend Mass, write in the morning, then spend the rest of the day recuperating and reading. Despite the debilitating effects of the steroid drugs used to treat O’Connor’s lupus, she nonetheless made over sixty appearances at lectures to read her works.”

If you have never read any O’Connor, here is a chance to hear her lovely Southern accent as she reads her own “A Good Man Is Hard to Find.”​