Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964) was born in Savannah, Georgia. She received her MFA from the University of Iowa in 1947 and wrote her first novel, Wise Blood (1952) in New York After learning she was dying of lupus, she moved to live with her mother on their ancestral farm raising birds. In her lifetime, she published a second novel, The Violent Bear It Away (1960) as well as an award-winning story collection, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955); posthumously, h er Complete Stories (1972) won the National Book Award.