Letter to Mr. Franklin, 1952 July 8.

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Letter to Mr. Franklin, 1952 July 8.

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O'Connor responds to a librarian who rescued "Wise Blood" from a "nice old lady with the dead forebrain." She comments that most ladies in Milledgeville, Ga., who bought the book want their money back and that she tries not to read reviews as even the more favorable miss the point. O'Connor adds that the book is "very Christian, after all" and notes that in her "estimation corrupting books are those which don't treat sin as sin, but as sickness or some such diluted notion thereof." She concludes that she isn't strong enough to write a political book, though "Georgia and Tennessee are both full of ripe political material" and quotes an ungrammatical and racist remark by Eugene Tallmadge, noting that the "dialogue, anyway, writes itself."

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Talmadge, Eugene, 1884-1946

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Born in Forsyth, Georgia; educated at the University of Georgia; practicing lawyer in Atlanta, Montgomery County, and Telfair County, Georgia; Georgia Commissioner of Agriculture, 1927-1933; served three terms as Governor of Georgia; died as governor-elect in 1946. From the description of Pamphlets, 1942. (University of Southern Mississippi, Regional Campus). WorldCat record id: 17429974 ...

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...