Oddballs and literature lovers rejoice! Flannery O’Connor’s Birthday Party is returning in full force after last year’s hiatus. While a good man may be hard to find, a good time can be found in every ...

SAVANNAH, Ga. (WSAV) — The Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home will celebrate Flannery O’Connor’s 100th Birthday March 21-23, 2025. This annual event has been expanded to an entire weekend in honor of ...

Every year, the Flannery O’Connor Childhood Home Museum celebrates the birthday of Savannah’s greatest literary treasure with a parade and birthday cake. Flannery O’Connor was a Southern Gothic writer ...

A panel discussion on February 23 will feature O’Connor scholars Mark Bosco, Patricia West, and Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, who will discuss the themes of faith, race, and disability in O’Connor’s works.

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 ...

Flannery O’Conner was famously dissatisfied with her first drafts. She rewrote, revised and reconsidered, struggling, she once said, like a squirrel on a treadmill. She spent five years writing her ...

Andalusia, with its white siding and red roof, is happily situated on a hill facing a lawn framed by forest on one side and the avenue and a path leading to a natural pond on the other side. Walking ...

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 ...

When it comes to violence, grotesque fiction, and a flair for irony, no Southern writer during the 20th century did it better ...