Flannery O'Connor
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Mary Flannery O'Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries.
O'Connor in 1947
O'Connor's childhood home in Savannah, Georgia
O'Connor with Arthur Koestler (left) and Robie Macauley on a visit to the Amana Colonies in 1947
Andalusia Farm, where O'Connor lived from 1952 until her 1964 death
Southern Gothic
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Southern Gothic is an artistic subgenre of fiction, music, film, theatre, and television that is heavily influenced by Gothic elements and set in the American South. Southern Gothic fiction highlights
Flannery O'Connor
…wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. O'Connor was a Southern writer who often wrote in a sardonic Southern Gothic style. She relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters, often in violent situations. In her writing, an unsentimental acceptance or…
Marlon Brando and Vivien Leigh in A Streetcar Named Desire (1951).
The Great Depression photography of Walker Evans has been described as Southern Gothic.