Flannery O'Connor

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SCOPE: Flannery OConnor was probably regarded to be the greatest short story writer of our time. Her works have been translated into many different languages and have been adapted for the theater and film. Regretfully, she died at the early age of thirty-nine from lupus.

CIRCULATING BOOKS Books of Flannery OConnors works are listed in the Baddour Library's on-line catalog under OConnor, Flannery, and under individual titles, i.e. A Good Man is Hard To Find. Books written by and about Flannery O'Connor have the call number(s): PS 3565.C57 PS 3529 Some representative books from the circulating collection that are located upstairs in the library are:

Brinkmeyer, Robert H. The Art & Vision of Flannery OConnor. Baton Rouge: Louisiana State University Press, 1989.

Gelfant, Blanche H. ed. The Columbia Companion to the Twentieth-Century American Short Story. New York: Columbia University press, 2000.

CRITICAL SOURCES

There are books in the Reference Collection that do not circulate, but pages may be photocopied. The following titles are appropriate to this topic:

REF PR 821.C7 1991 Critical Survey of Long Fiction Vol. 6

REF PS 21.D5 Dictionary of Literary Biography Vol. 2 American Novelists since World War II

REF PN 771.M3 1991 Major 20th Century Writers

REF PS 94.M34 1993 Masterpieces of American Literature

PERIODICALS, JOURNALS, & TRADE PUBLICATIONS

Southern Literary Journal

• American Literature
   

WEB SITES

Voice of the Shuttle
http://vos.ucsb.edu/

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Updated 08/16/2007