How appropriate that Flannery O’Connor should have been born on the Solemnity of the Annunciation: the liturgical feast celebrating the willing acceptance of a God-given vocation. As we marked Miss ...
Flannery O’Connor would be 100 years old this March 25. For the O’Connor community of supporters—her trust, two museums, countless scholars and fans—her birthday centennial offers an opportunity to ...
Until moving to Savannah, Georgia, I’d never celebrated the birthday of a dead person. Sure, I mentally commemorated my long-gone father’s birthday each December. But I’m talking full-blown birthday ...
In May of 2023, about two dozen small paintings were discovered in a box in the attic of a two-hundred-year-old clapboard mansion in Milledgeville, Georgia, where the writer Flannery O’Connor lived ...
The exhibit “Flannery: The Visual Artist” is on display at the new interpretive center at Andalusia, Flannery O’Connor’s former home in Milledgeville, Ga. Credit: Clay Benfield/Clayviation Films Let’s ...
The darkly comic Southern novelist kept a quiet practice in the visual arts. For the centenary of her birth, her paintings are finally getting an audience — and updating her legacy. Flannery ...