Janet August and Amy Atamian are happy to show off “the Flannery Room” — the upstairs guest space in their Redding home where writer Flannery O’Connor briefly lived. Until recently, they didn’t have ...

Anyone who seeks to understand U.S. politics must come to grips with the South; anyone who wants to know the South must read Flannery O'Connor. Gooch's biography breaks new ground, providing the most ...

Mary Flannery is the first and only child born to Edward Francis and Regina O'Connor in Savannah, Georgia. O'Connor’s family moves to Milledgeville, Georgia where she attends Peabody Girls High School ...

Before her untimely death in 1964, novelist Flannery O'Connor wrote, "As for biographies, there won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the ...

There's an entire subset of bookish young women who've gone through a Flannery O'Connor phase (it usually comes somewhere right before or after the Sylvia Plath obsession). With Wildcat, Maya Hawke ...

Who says there’s no such thing as nepotism in Hollywood? After all, there’s no way that Ethan Hawke would have got the gig directing Wildcat if he wasn’t the star's father. “She ended up turning her ...

The movie, directed by Maya's father, Ethan, and co-starring Laura Linney, toggles between the Southern author's own controversial biography and dramatized scenes from her stories. By Rebecca Keegan ...

FLANNERY: A LIFE OF FLANNERY O’CONNOR By Brad Gooch Little, Brown, $30, 416 pages REVIEWED BY JAMES E. PERSON JR. For many years, Flannery O’Connor (1925-1964) has been viewed in much the same light ...

In Wildcat, Ethan Hawke’s drama about Flannery O’Connor that premiered at the Telluride Film Festival on Friday, a smug white woman (Laura Linney) riding a city bus gives a Black child a penny. In ...