Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor

The landscape of American literature was fundamentally changed when Flannery O'Connor stepped onto the scene with her first published book, Wise Blood, in 1952. Her fierce, sometimes comic novels and stories reflected the darkly funny, vibrant, and theologically sophisticated woman who wrote them. Brad Gooch brings to life O'Connor's significant friendships--with Robert Lowell, Elizabeth Hardwick, Walker Percy, and James Dickey among others--and her deeply felt convictions, as expressed in her communications with Thomas Merton, Elizabeth Bishop, and Betty Hester. Hester was famously known as "A" in O'Connor's collected letters, The Habit of Being, and a large cache of correspondence to her from O'Connor was made available to scholars, including Brad Gooch, in 2006. O'Connor's capacity to live fully--despite the chronic disease that eventually confined her to her mother's farm in Georgia--is illuminated in this engaging and authoritative biography.

• A Prayer Journal
• The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
• Flannery O'Connor : Collected Works : Wise Blood / A Good Man Is Hard to Find / The Violent Bear It Away / Everything that Rises Must Converge / Essays & Letters (Library of America)
• Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose (FSG Classics)
• The Complete Stories (FSG Classics)
• Wise Blood: A Novel (FSG Classics)
• Office Of Assertion: An Art Of Rhetoric For Academic Essay
• The Terrible Speed of Mercy: A Spiritual Biography of Flannery O'Connor
• Truth Overruled: The Future of Marriage and Religious Freedom
• The Violent Bear It Away: A Novel (FSG Classics)