Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Mary Flannery O╒Connor grew up and attended schools there and in Milledgeville, Georgia. She graduated from Georgia State College for Women (now Georgia College) in 1945 and for two years studied creative writing at Iowa State University, taking an M.F.A. degree in 1947. Her first published piece was a story in Accent in 1946, and in subsequent years her stories appeared in Sewanee Review, Parisian Review, Kenyon Review, Mademoiselle, and other periodicals. In 1952 she published Wise Blood, a novel that, together with her collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find, and Other Stories, 1955, attracted considerable critical attention. Her stark tales of variously alienated and deformed characters, recalling in some ways and yet transcending the hackneyed conventions of Southern gothic writing, were in fact moral fables informed by the author╒s Catholic viewpoint. The Violent Bear It Away, a novel, appeared in 1960, and a second collection of stories, Everything That Rises Must Converge, was published posthumously in 1965. She died in Milledgeville, Georgia, on August 3, 1964, of a chronic disease. Her Christian and often almost mystical concerns, expressed in stories propelled by violent incident, gave rise to comparisons of her writing with that of Dostoevsky, although some critics saw it rather is merely narrow. The power of her fictions, however, outlived their shock, and Flannery O╒Connor: The Complete Stories, edited by Robert Giroux, 1971, won a National Book Award. Her collected lectures and essays were published as Mystery and Manners in 1969.
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