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1925-1964

Flannery O'Conner was born in Savannah, Georgia, and was raised in the small Georgia town of Milledeville. After receiving her undergraduate degree from Georgia State College for Women, she went on to attend the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop. When she was twenty-seven, she published her first novel, //Wise Blood//, the story of a violent rivalry among the members of a fictional religious sect in the South. In 1955 she published her first collection of short stories, //A Good Man Is Hard to Find//.This was followed in 1960 by a second novel, //The Violent Bear It Away;// and in 1965 //Everything That Rises Must Converge//, another collection of her stories, was published.

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-- Works Cited: Bowler,Ellen, McCollum,Douglas, Fried,Philip, Ackley,Kelly, Hausmann,Eric, Weidenman,Lauren, eds."The American Experience" Story:The Life You Save Could Be Yours

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