Literary icon Flannery O’Connor is best known for her Southern Gothic fiction and short stories including “A Good Man is Hard to Find” and “Wise Blood,” but she was also a visual artist. Stored ...

Ruby Turpin spends nearly all of Flannery O’Connor’s “Revelation,” telling herself and others what a good, God-fearing woman she is, how grateful she is that the Lord has made her so. The dark irony ...

Recent book releases and — now films — are rekindling interest in the life and work of Catholic writer Flannery O’Connor, a Savannah, Georgia, native whose art was cut short by her early death in 1964 ...

Recently discovered paintings, illustrations, and prints by Flannery O’Connor, hidden away for decades, are now on display at the author’s alma mater. The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet ...

Milledgeville, Georgia, Jan. 09, 2025 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- One of the great American writers, Flannery O’Connor is a world-renowned icon of southern gothic fiction — but she was also a visual artist, ...

MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. ― On Greene Street in historic Milledgeville, across the lawn from the old Governor’s Mansion, is a charming Southern house with plantation shutters framing the windows and four ...

Oddballs and literature lovers rejoice! Flannery O’Connor’s Birthday Party is returning in full force after last year’s hiatus. While a good man may be hard to find, a good time can be found in every ...

Everyone, it seems, is talking about Flannery O’Connor. The Georgia-based late Catholic author of Wiseblood and a number of compelling short stories, is the subject of the recently released film ...

A panel discussion on February 23 will feature O’Connor scholars Mark Bosco, Patricia West, and Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, who will discuss the themes of faith, race, and disability in O’Connor’s works.

Flannery O’Conner was famously dissatisfied with her first drafts. She rewrote, revised and reconsidered, struggling, she once said, like a squirrel on a treadmill. She spent five years writing her ...

The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy. By Walker Mimms ...