Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925, into a Catholic family; at about the age of six, she was filmed by Pathé with a chicken that walks backwards. She lost her father to lupus at fifteen, studied writing in Iowa, stayed at Yaddo and, at twenty-five, fell ill with the same lupus. She spent her last thirteen years at Andalusia, the family farm near Milledgeville, among her peacocks, writing two hours a day and walking on crutches. She died in 1964, at thirty-nine.

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