O'Connor, Mary Flannery, 1925-1964
Dates
- Existence: 1925-03-25 - 1964-08-12
biographical statement
American author and essayist.
Found in 190 Collections and/or Records:
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-02-12
"Thank you for offering to let me use your camera but the doctor has decided that this trip would be too strenuous for me so it is off. I am just as well satisfied as I was not looking forward to the exertion. If I ever get terribly rich, haw, I shall go at my leisure and stay in one place..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-03-15
"...I can't do the whole thing so we are going to Italy and stay a week with some friends of mine and then join the tour in Paris and go with them to Lourdes, etc. We'll get back May 8 and I will need the next ten days to rest up before the Missouri business..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-04-14
"Thanks so much for the picture book about Rome. I'll probably see more Rome in the picture book than I do in Rome. Anyhow, we are about ready to go, have our tickets and other paraphernalia, and are prepared to endure--more or less..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-05-13
"I am back but in bed with pleurisy, so I won't be able to come to Missouri..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-05-22
"...I have about recovered from the trip to Europe but I haven't gotten over having to give up the Missouri business, particularly after I had spent a good five weeks writing myself a lecture for it..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-06-08
"I really like the story and don't think it is precious. If you wrote that well five years ago, you should certainly keep on with it. You have a very good ear and that means a lot..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-07-07
"...I'm glad you liked the story. I always cringe when I read them in print. I suppose this one will be seen only by ladies in beauty parlors. It depresses me. I deplore the Harper's Bazaar setting but I like the price..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-08-05
"The 18th will be fine for us. We called the Milledgeville Dog & Cat and they will be delighted to put up your hounds..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-09-12
"I am not so sure that it is the 'framework' in Catholicism that helps the writer. It is simply that the main Catholic concepts are in line with reality--the realization that man is not perfectible by his own efforts..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-09-20
"This story is a good deal better than some of the ones in the current Martha Foley collection that I have been reading. I hesitate to say anything is wrong with the structure of it..."