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Flannery O’Connor Early Life Flannery was born on March 25, 1925 daughter of Edward F. and Regina L. O’Connor in Savannah Georgia. Her parents’ only child she grew up in their Catholic home in Savannah until she was twelve (Baumgaertner 5). At age twelve her family moved from Savannah to Milledgeville, the town where her mother’s father had been mayor for a number of years. In Milledgeville she attended Peabody High School and after graduation …

…well accepted throughout the literary community by both Northerner and Southerner. O’Connor’s stories visit the mysterious workings of the human soul and show how man’s sinful nature leads to destruction. Her stories, filled with violence and religion are influenced by her beliefs and surroundings. Her works are interesting, entertaining and as Whitt has observed, “One is not likely to forget an O’Connor story, precisely because it is so strikingly, stridently different” (5).