Flannery O’Connor: References & Edit History
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Additional Reading
Jean W. Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (2002); and Brad Gooch, Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor (2009), are biographies. Suzanne Morrow Paulson, Flannery O’Connor: A Study of the Short Fiction (1988), also includes biographical information. Further analyses of O’Connor’s work include Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (eds.), Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor (1985); Sura P. Rath and Mary Neff Shaw (eds.), Flannery O’Connor: New Perspectives (1996); Angela Alaimo O’Donnell, Radical Ambivalence: Race in Flannery O’Connor (2020); and Jessica Hooten Wilson, Flannery O’Connor’s Why Do the Heathen Rage? (2024).
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Article History
| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Modified link of Web site: PBS - American Masters - Flannery O'Connor. | Oct 23, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Jul 30, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: ABC listen - The Life of Flannery O'Connor. | Jun 11, 2026 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | Mar 21, 2026 | ||
| Add new Web site: NPR - Flannery O'Connor's Complex, Flawed Character. | Jul 12, 2025 | ||
| Added a section on her legacy and head levels. | Mar 24, 2025 | ||
| Add new Web site: BBC - Witness History - John Maynard Keynes. | Nov 11, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: Georgia Humanities - The �forever� of Flannery O�Connor � the lasting influence of a Southern Gothic writer. | Jul 18, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Mar 29, 2024 | ||
| Add new Web site: EWTN - Flannery O'Connor: Assaulting the Imagination. | Nov 09, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: Humanities LibreTexts - Flannery O'Connor's A Good Man is Hard to Find and Good Country People. | Jun 23, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: American Society of Authors and Writers - Flannery O'Connor. | May 12, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: PBS - American Masters - Flannery O'Connor. | Mar 16, 2023 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Biography of Flannery O�Connor. | Sep 07, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Georgia Historical Society - Flannery O'Connor. | Apr 10, 2022 | ||
| Add new Web site: Famous Authors - Flannery O'Connor. | Apr 10, 2022 | ||
| Added cross-references. | Jan 12, 2021 | ||
| Add new Web site: Georgia College - Ina Dillard Russell Library - Biography of Flannery O'Connor. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Description of Wise Blood revised. | Aug 24, 2018 | ||
| Add new Web site: New Georgia Encyclopedia - Arts and Culture - Biography of Flannery O'Connor. | Aug 04, 2014 | ||
| Noted the publication of A Prayer Journal. | Dec 13, 2013 | ||
| Add new Web site: Public Broadcasting Service - Biography of Flannery O�Connor. | Feb 11, 2013 | ||
| Added more biographical details of O'Connor's life and plot summaries for some of her books. | Apr 09, 2009 | ||
| Biographies by Cash and Gooch added. | Mar 23, 2009 | ||
| Added new Web site: The Literary Encyclopedia - Biography of Flannery O'Connor. | May 31, 2007 | ||
| Article revised. | Feb 10, 2000 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Oct 13, 1999 |
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