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, 1958-10-05
"I'll be interested to see what Mr. Ransom thinks of as [sic] 'hick talk.' I have always listened with profit to what he has had to say about my stories..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-10-09
"My thoughts on this story of tentative. I think it wonderfully imaginative. It's a wonderful idea having the old woman think the devil is taking over. What chiefly worried m when I read it the first time was the occasional mannered use of the language..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-10-19
"...The surest way to kill off the short story is to say it's a woman's art..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-10-26
"...I suppose my novel too will be called another Southern ethic. I have an idiot in it. I wish I could do it, without the idiot but the idiot is necessary. In any case it's a very nice unobjectionable idiot..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-11-08
"...I have worked some more on the Birmingham talk because it doesn't really suit me but I am too sick of it to do much with it. I mean universal religion as opposed to sect, the catholic as opposed to the parochial..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-12-09
"Thanks for the clippings. No one there sent them to me so I wouldn't have seen them otherwise. I don’t exactly remember telling the lady the writer didn't need inspiration. At interviews I always feel like a dry cow being milked. There is no telling what they will get out of you..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1958-12-13
"I've like each one better than the last but this is absolutely the best. It is inconceivable to me that a story this good will remain unpublished..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-01-14
"I told you Eudora Welty was coming to the University of Chicago this year. She isn't. I am. Her brother got sick and they called me up and asked me to take her place and I foolishly accepted..."
Letter from Flannery O'Connor to Cecil Dawkins, 1959-01-29
"...I read my novel over and decided it isn't finished. False alarm. If I live through this Chicago episode, I shall reapproah [sic] it at my leisure..."