- Collection:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia
- Title:
- Flannery O'Connor
- Date of Original:
- 1925/1964
- Subject:
- Catholic women authors--Georgia--Milledgeville
Women--Georgia--Milledgeville
Authors, American--Georgia--Milledgeville
Women authors, American--Georgia--Milledgeville
Novelists, American--Georgia--Milledgeville
Women novelists, American--Georgia--Milledgeville
O'Connor, Flannery - Location:
- United States, Georgia, Baldwin County, Milledgeville, 33.08014, -83.2321
- Medium:
- black-and-white photographs
- Type:
- Still Image
- Format:
- image/jpeg
- Description:
- At the age of thirty-nine, Flannery O'Connor died on August 3, 1964, of lupus, the disease that had also afflicted her father. She is buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville. The posthumous collection The Complete Stories received the National Book Award in 1972.
Photograph of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor. She is shown from the shoulders up, and she faces forward.
Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction writers and one of the strongest apologists for Roman Catholicism in the twentieth century. At the age of thirty-nine, O'Connor died on August 3, 1964, of lupus, the disease that had also afflicted her father. She is buried in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her posthumous collection The Complete Stories received the National Book Award in 1972. - Metadata URL:
- https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/the-violent-bear-it-away/m-458/
- Rights Holder:
- Courtesy of Ina Dillard Russell Library, Georgia College and State University
- Additional Rights Information:
- Please contact holding institution for information regarding use and copyright status.
- Original Collection:
- http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964
http://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/violent-bear-it-away
Forms part of: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Holding Institution:
- New Georgia Encyclopedia (Project)
- Rights:
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