When Flannery O’Connor’s letters were published in “The Habit of Being” in 1979, the exchanges between the Georgia writer and her many correspondents provided a startling window into O’Connor’s work.

“All my work was informed by my years in Catholic school. All that redemption, damnation. ... As I got older I stopped fighting against it. Now I draw on it and enjoy it. There’s no greater well to ...

Mention Flannery O’Connor’s fiction, and many people will shudder. After all, her stories feature disturbing events like a child drowning, a woman being gored by a bull and a family gunned down on the ...

Aquinas, Thomas. Summa Theologica. 1274. Trans. Fathers of the English Dominican Province.New York: Benziger Brothers, 1947. Bosco, Mark, S.J. “O’Connor’s Prayer Journal and the Life of Faith.” ...

Catholic writer Flannery O'Connor is seen in an undated photo. From March 21-23, 2025, a museum in Savannah, Ga., dedicated to her literary genius and fascinating personality is celebrating the ...

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 ...

Oddballs and literature lovers rejoice! Flannery O’Connor’s Birthday Party is returning in full force after last year’s hiatus. While a good man may be hard to find, a good time can be found in every ...

Those familiar with her menagerie of grotesques, her views of Southern society, her tortured faith and inner contradictions will get what his film is doing. By Alissa Wilkinson Nobody’s ever really ...