O'Connor, (Mary) Flannery (1925-1964)

US novelist and short-story writer. Her works have a great sense of evil and sin, and often explore the religious sensibility of the Deep South, as in her novels Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960). Her work exemplifies the post-war revival of the gothic novel in southern US fiction.

Her collections of short stories include A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955), and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1965). Other works are a collection of her letters, The Habit of Being (1979), and Flannery O'Connor: Collected Works (1988).