Timeline Flannery O'Connor

The life of Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964), the Georgia writer of Wise Blood and A Good Man Is Hard to Find, whose Southern Gothic stories mix grace, violence and dark comedy.

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1925 Flannery O'Connor born in Savannah Mary Flannery O'Connor is born in Savannah, Georgia, the only child of a Catholic family.
1938 O'Connor's family moves to Milledgeville The O'Connors move to Milledgeville, Georgia, her mother's family home.
1941 O'Connor's father dies of lupus Edward O'Connor dies of lupus, the disease that will later strike his daughter.
1945 O'Connor goes to the Iowa Writers' Workshop After graduating from Georgia State College for Women, Flannery O'Connor joins the Iowa Writers' Workshop.
1946 O'Connor's first published story Flannery O'Connor's story The Geranium appears in the magazine Accent.
1947 O'Connor earns her Iowa MFA Flannery O'Connor completes her master's degree with a collection of stories as her thesis.
1948 O'Connor at Yaddo Flannery O'Connor works on her first novel at the Yaddo artists' colony in Saratoga Springs.
1949 O'Connor lives with the Fitzgeralds Flannery O'Connor boards with her friends Robert and Sally Fitzgerald in Ridgefield, Connecticut.
1951 O'Connor moves to Andalusia Diagnosed with lupus, Flannery O'Connor returns to Georgia and lives with her mother on the Andalusia farm, where she raises peacocks.
1952 O'Connor publishes Wise Blood Flannery O'Connor's first novel follows Hazel Motes, preacher of the Church Without Christ.
1955 O'Connor publishes A Good Man Is Hard to Find Flannery O'Connor's first story collection includes the title story of a family and an escaped convict, the Misfit.
1958 O'Connor's pilgrimage to Lourdes and Rome On crutches, Flannery O'Connor visits Lourdes and meets Pope Pius XII in Rome.
1960 O'Connor publishes The Violent Bear It Away Flannery O'Connor's second and last novel follows a boy raised by his prophet great-uncle.
1964 Flannery O'Connor dies in Milledgeville Flannery O'Connor dies of lupus at 39.
1965 O'Connor's Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O'Connor's second story collection is published posthumously.
1972 O'Connor's Complete Stories wins the National Book Award Flannery O'Connor is the first deceased writer to win the National Book Award for Fiction.
1979 O'Connor's letters published The Habit of Being, a collection of Flannery O'Connor's letters, is published.