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, ...

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 ...

On the surface, Flannery O'Connor's stories of enigmatic killers, exploiters of human misery, and churchmen of Christ without Christ would seem somewhat perverse exemplars of the divine. And yet, as ...

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 ...

Every year, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum celebrates the birthday of Savannah’s greatest literary treasure with a parade and birthday cake. Flannery O’Connor was a Southern Gothic writer ...

Many Catholics interested in literature have had their preconceptions quashed and expectations refined (as if by fire) by the art of Flannery O’Connor. Her stories are often brutal, with unlikeable ...

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 hundred years after the birth of Flannery O’Connor, her South, as well as the rest of America, is less “Christ-haunted,” as she once phrased it. Now, we’re Christ-neglecting, with the scandal of the ...