Regina Lucille O'Connor

FOC 's earliest book, published with a print-run of 3,000 copies, was the first of her two short novels, Wise Blood, the fruit of several years' work under severe difficulties, dedicated to her mother .

Her mother was born Regina Lucille Cline , of a family that had high social standing in Milledgeville. She later became a dauntingly tough farm manager and businesswoman. According to Sally Fitzgerald, though...

This collection was the first fruits of her life with her mother on the farm Andalusia, narrowed down by the constraints of her illness. Years later she wrote of the delusion that her writing...

FOC made her only journey outside the USA: a pilgrimage to Lourdes with her mother , made at the suggestion and the expense of her cousin Katie Semmes .