O'Connor, Flannery, 1925-1964
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Mary Flannery O'Connor (b. March 25, 1925, Savannah, Georgia-d. August 3, 1964, Milledgeville, Georgia), Southern American novelist and short story writer, the daughter of Edward Francis and Regina Cline O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia, on March 25, 1925. She attended parochial schools in Savannah before moving to Milledgeville after the death of her father in 1941. After finishing high school in Milledgeville, she attended the Georgia State College for Women, now Georgia College and State University, where she received a B.A. in social science in 1945. After graduating from college she earned a scholarship to the Iowa Writers Workshop. She graduated from Iowa in 1947, then spent parts of 1948 and 1949 at Yaddo, an artists' colony in Saratoga Springs, New York. After becoming ill with lupus in December 1950, she moved in with her mother at Andalusia, a farm near Milledgeville, where she lived until her death on August 3, 1964.
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referencedIn | Abraham S. Burack collection | Boston University. School of Medicine | |
referencedIn | Approach Archives, 1913-1968 | Syracuse University. Library. Special Collections Research Center | |
creatorOf | Boston College Humanities Series director's records | Boston College. John J. Burns Library | |
referencedIn | Brown, Ashley, 1923-. Ashley Brown collection, 1955-1997. | Emory University. Special Collections and Archives | |
referencedIn | C. Hugh Holman Papers (#4537), 1930s-1980s | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill. Library. Southern Historical Collection | |
creatorOf | Cabell, James Branch, 1879-1958. Correspondence of various contributors to the editors of this Washington and Lee University Literary magazine [manuscript] 1950-60. | University of Virginia. Library | |
creatorOf | Carter, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1931-1963. Correspondence, 1950-1962. | Washington & Lee University, James G. Leyburn Library | |
referencedIn | Dorrance, Ward Allison, 1904-1996. Ward Allison Dorrance papers, 1935-1974. | University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
creatorOf | Engle, Paul, 1908-1991. Paul Engle papers, 1930-1991. | Coe College, Stewart Memorial Library | |
referencedIn | Farrar, Straus & Giroux, Inc. records, 1899-2003, 1945-1989 | New York Public Library. Manuscripts and Archives Division |
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associatedWith | Burden, Carter, |
associatedWith | Carter, Thomas H. (Thomas Henry), 1931-1963. |
associatedWith | Cozzens, James Gould, 1903-1978. |
associatedWith | Darsey, Fred. |
associatedWith | Dawkins, Cecil, 1927- |
associatedWith | Dorrance, Ward Allison, 1904-1996. |
associatedWith | Engle, Paul, 1908-1991, |
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О'Коннор, Фланнери, 1925-1964
O'Connor, Mary Flannery, 1925-1964
O'Konnor, Flanneri, 1925-1964
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