O'Connor was born in 1925 Savannah, Ga., on leafy Lafayette Square, still dominated by the massive Cathedral of St. John the Baptist visible from the O'Connors' doorstep. Roman Catholicism was central ...

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Mary Flannery is the first and only child born to Edward Francis and Regina O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia. O'Connor’s family moves to Milledgeville, Georgia where she attends Peabody Girls High School ...

There have been many biographies of Flannery O’Connor written in the last two decades and critical studies on her work continues to grow, especially concerning O’Connor’s life and her work around ...

Who says there’s no such thing as nepotism in Hollywood? After all, there’s no way that Ethan Hawke would have got the gig directing Wildcat if he wasn’t the star's father. “She ended up turning her ...

A new documentary film about one of Georgia’s most eminent writers, Flannery O’Connor, will have its digital premiere online Friday, July 17. “Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” ...

In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor lived ...

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 ...

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.

There's an entire subset of bookish young women who've gone through a Flannery O'Connor phase (it usually comes somewhere right before or after the Sylvia Plath obsession). With Wildcat, Maya Hawke ...

Before her untimely death in 1964, novelist Flannery O'Connor wrote, "As for biographies, there won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the ...