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O'Connor, Flannery (1925–1964)
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Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Regina and Edward O'Connor. She was baptized Mary Flannery. The O'Connors were Roman Catholics in the predominantly fundamentalist Deep South. Flannery O'Connor, with her disturbingly comic and yet profoundly Christian fiction, would become one of the 20th century's most acclaimed short story writers.
Title: O'Connor, Flannery (1925–1964)
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Abstract
Born on March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Georgia, Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Regina and Edward O'Connor.
She was baptized Mary Flannery.
The O'Connors were Roman Catholics in the predominantly fundamentalist Deep South.
Flannery O'Connor, with her disturbingly comic and yet profoundly Christian fiction, would become one of the 20th century's most acclaimed short story writers.
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