Flannery
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Flannery O'Connor "A Good Man Is Hard To Find" A Southern American novelist and short story writer, Miss O' Connor's career spanned the 1950s and early '60s, a time when the South was dominated by Protestant Christians. O'Connor was born and raised Catholic. She was a fundamentalist and a Christian moralist whose powerful apocalyptic fiction is focused in the South. Flannery O'Connor was born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia. O' Connor grew up on a farm with her parents Regina and Edward O' Connor. At the age of five, she taught a chicken to walk backwards. O'Connor attended Georgia State College for women, now Georgia College, in Milledgeville, majoring in sociology. She had showed a gift for satirical writing, as well as cartooning since she was a child. By the end of her undergraduate education, O'Connor knew that writing was her true passion. She spent two years at the...

