Its hard to believe, but this is the first major biography of the Georgia-?born-and-bred Flannery OConnor, who brought ?to life a bedraggled collection of Southern misfits in dark, ?savage, sometimes deeply funny ?novels and stories likeWise Bloodand ?A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
(When Im asked why Southern writers have a penchant for writing about freaks, ?I say its because we are still able to recognize one, she once said.)
Diagnosed at 25 with lupus, OConnor worked urgently, almost frantically, ?until her death at 39, churning out one critically acclaimed book after another.
Thanks to Brad GoochsFlannery: A Life, she emerges once again, as quirky, passionate, and ?tart-tongued as ever.A
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