Critics note novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960) and short stories, collected in such works as A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), of American writer Mary Flannery O'Connor for their explorations of religious faith and a spare literary style. The Georgia state college for women educated O’Connor, who then studied writing at the Iowa writers' workshop and wrote much of Wise Blood at the colony of artists at Yaddo in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on Andalusia, ancestral farm of her family outside Milledgeville, Georgia. O’Connor wrote Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). When she died at the age of 39 years, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. Survivors published her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969). Her Complete Stories , published posthumously in 1972, won the national book award for that year. Survivors published her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988, the Library of America published Collected Works of Flannery O'Connor, the first so honored postwar writer. People in an online poll in 2009 voted her Complete Stories as the best book to win the national book award in the six-decade history of the contest.
Books
Flannery O'Connor Complete Stories
2009
The Habit of Being
1979
The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O'Connor
1983
Wise Blood, The Violent Bear It Away, The Complete Stories
1992
Cuentos de mujeres solas
2002
A Temple of the Holy Ghost
1954
Un hombre bueno es difícil de encontrar
2012
A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories
1955
Collected Works
1988
A Late Encounter with the Enemy
1953
Buku Cerita Perempuan
2021
Mystery and Manners
Occasional Prose
1969
A Stroke of Good Fortune
1949
The Artificial Nigger and Other Tales
2000
Contos Crime
2011
Revelation
1964
Un hombre bueno es difícil de encontrar
2012
Flannery O'Connor
2003
A Memoir of Mary Ann
1961
Antología del cuento norteamericano
2002
The Complete Stories
1971
A View of the Woods
1957
Judgement Day
2025
C'est peut-être votre vie que vous sauvez et autres nouvelles
2025
Flannery O'Connor Short Stories
1995
Good Country People
1955
A Circle in the Fire and Other Stories
1954
A Prayer Journal
2013
The Lame Shall Enter First
1962
The Displaced Person
1954
The Enduring Chill
1958
The River
1953
Conversations with Flannery O'Connor
1987
A Good Man Is Hard To Find
1949
Flannery O'Connor
In Celebration of Genius
2000
Flannery O'Connor
The Cartoons
2012
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
1953
Parker's Back
1974
Romances
1952
Good Things Out of Nazareth
The Uncollected Letters of Flannery O'Connor and Friends
2019
3 by Flannery O'Connor
1960
The Violent Bear It Away
1960
Wise Blood
1952
The Barber
2023
The Comforts of Home
1960
Everything That Rises Must Converge
1965
The Geranium and Other Stories
1947
Greenleaf
2025
3 By Flannery O'Connor
1960
