Papers, 1948-1974.

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Papers, 1948-1974.

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Primarily letters, many of them regarding or from Flannery O'Connor. Other correspondants include: Katherine Anne Porter (reminiscences about San Antonio); Father J.H. McKown (concerning the Gossett's relationship with Flannery O'Connor); Stark Young; John B. Breslin; Mark Harris; and Mrs. Edward F. O'Connor. Also includes a recording of an address by Flannery O'Connor delivered at East Texas State College Forum on the Arts (1962, Nov. 16) entitled, "Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Literature;" newsletters (one with notations by O'Connor); an article entitled, "Some Unpublished Comments of Flannery O'Connor on Her Fiction," by Dr. Gossett; a copy of an article by Charles A. Brady entitled, "Unicorns at Oxford," with brief comment on Charles Williams by Miss O'Connor; and prints from colored slides made by Mrs. Gossett when she and Dr. Gossett, Katherine Anne Porter, and a few others visited Flannery O'Connor and her mother 1958, March 27.

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Duke University Libraries, Duke University Library; Perkins Library

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Porter, Katherine Anne, 1890-1980

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Katherine Anne Porter (1890-1980) was one of the most brilliant practitioners of the art of the short story. Her literary reputation rests on the stories in her Collected Stories (1964) rather than on her best-selling novel Ship of Fools (1962). Born Callie Russell Porter on May 15, 1890, she was the fourth of Harrison and Mary Alice Porter's five children. When her mother died in March 1892, her father moved the four surviving children from his farm in the central Texas community ...

Brady, Charles A. (Charles Andrew), 1912-

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McKown, J. H., Father.

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Harris, Mark, 1962-

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Gossett, Thomas F., 1916-

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Thomas Gossett is Professor Emeritus of English at Wake Forest University, Winston-Salem, N.C. He and his wife, Louise, developed friendships with several major American writers and intellectuals. From the description of Papers, 1948-1991 and n.d. (Duke University Library). WorldCat record id: 79844673 Dr. Gossett was Professor of English at Wake Forest College/University. From the description of Thomas F. Gossett Papers, 1985-1986. (Wake Forest University - ZSR ...

Williams, C.K. (Charles Kenneth), 1936-

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O'Connor, Edward F., Mrs.

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Young, Stark

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American author and critic. From the description of Belle Isle : typescript unsigned, 1940 July 31. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270129868 American journalist and dramatist. From the description of Autograph letter signed : Bedford, New York, to Belle da Costa Greene, 1944 Jun. 25. (Unknown). WorldCat record id: 270584560 American author. From the description of Letter to Minnie Nielson Butler [manuscript], 1950 March 14. (University of Vir...

Gossett, Louise Y.

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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 Univers...

Breslin, John B.

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