Others she met at Yaddo included Patricia Highsmith
, who admired her seriousness, Elizabeth Hardwick
, Robert Lowell
, whom she hoped to convert to Catholicism, and Robert and Sally Fitzgerald
, whose home she...
Health
Flannery O'Connor
She found herself back in hospital; acute rheumatoid arthritis was diagnosed at first, but at the Emory University Hospital
in Atlanta Dr Arthur J. Merrill
diagnosed lupus. This fatal diagnosis was kept from her; she...
Publishing
Flannery O'Connor
She gave up writing articles (though not talks) after Caroline Gordon
told her in summer 1961 that she had been writing too many essays and it is affecting my style.
qtd. in
Gooch, Brad. Flannery. Little, Brown and Co., 2009.
339
She was an enthusiastic...
Textual Production
Flannery O'Connor
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...
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Texts
O’Connor, Flannery. “Introduction”. The Habit of Being, edited by Sally Fitzgerald, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979, p. xi - xix.
O’Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being. Editor Fitzgerald, Sally, Farrar, Straus, Giroux, 1979.