![]() ![]() ![]() For pleasure she raised peacocks, pheasants, swans, geese, chickens and Muscovy ducks. For the rest of her life, she and her mother lived on the family dairy farm, Andalusia, outside Millidgeville, Georgia. In 1952 she learned that she was dying of lupus, a disease which had afflicted her father. After university, she moved to New York where she continued to write. Her writing is best-known for its explorations of religious themes and southern racial issues, and for combining the comic with the tragic. ![]() After earning her degree she continued her studies on the University of Iowa's writing program, and her first published story, 'The Geranium', was written while she was still a student. This is the complete collection of stories from one of the most original and powerful American writers of the twentieth-century. In 1945 she enrolled at the Georgia State College for Women. Biography: Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925, the only child of Catholic parents. ![]()
0 Comments
Leave a Reply. |