Biography

     On March 25, 1925, Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia. When she was a teenager, her father died from lupus, the disease that would take her life before she was forty. She attended the University of Iowa and published her first shorty story in 1946 called "The Geranium." She wrote novels, but she is most famous for her short stories. I found it interesting that each of O’Conner’s stories contains the idea of living spiritually while being in a secular world (Meyer 351). She incorporated into her stories Catholicism and Protestantism that was found in the South. However, readers of all religious thought can appreciate her stories because she addresses the defeat man experiences (Meyer 355). O’Connor was diagnosed with lupus when she was twenty-five. After her diagnosis, she went to live at her mother's farm where she took care of peacocks (Meyer 351). O'Connor battled this disease for over ten years, and died in 1964 (Meyer 350). O’Connor did not think her life was worthy of a biography because it was not very exciting (Meyer 351). However, I think we can learn a lot from her simple life.

References

"Flannery O'Connor Biography." Www.biography.com. N.p., 15 Dec. 2014. Web. 12 Mar. 2017.

Meyer, Michael. The Compact Bedford Introduction to Literature. 10th ed. Boston, New York: Bedford/St. Martin's, n.d. Print.