Flannery O'Connor  (1925-1964) Good Country People LINKS The Flannery O'Connor Collection http://library.gac.peachnet.edu/~sc/foc.html Maintained by Georgia College and State University (O'Connor's alma mater), this site offers an excellent bibliography of scholarly books and articles, answers to frequently asked questions about O'Connor, and other useful links. Emerging Voices of the Twentieth Century: Flannery O'Connor http://cheshire.cwrl.utexas.edu/~mmaynard/Voices/oconnor.html The page on O'Connor at this student-written site from the University of Texas at Austin gives some useful biographical information along with a brief introduction to the main themes in O'Connor's fiction. BIOGRAPHY Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964)  Afflicted with lupus erythematosus, O'Connor spent most of her tragically short life in Milledgeville, Georgia. She began writing while a student at Georgia State College for Women in her hometown and in 1947 earned an M.F.A. degree from the University of Iowa. Back in Milledgeville, she lived on a farm with her mother, raised peacocks, and endured the indignity of constant treatment for her progressive and incurable disease. She traveled and lectured when she could. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two collections of stories, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965). She was deeply religious, and wrote numerous book reviews for Catholic newspapers. Her southern gothic tales often force readers to confront physical deformity, spiritual depravity, and the violence they often engender.