Flannery o'connor education

Flannery O’Connor only lived thirty-nine years and published a relatively small body of fiction. Though she penned only two novels and thirty-two short stories, she is considered one of America’s most influential fiction writers fifty years after her death.

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925, to Regina Cline O’Connor and Edward Francis O’Connor, Jr.

The O’Connor family settled at 207 Charlton Street just across Lafayette Square from the Cathedral of St. John the Baptist where Flannery was baptized and made her first communion. O’Connor was a devout Roman Catholic throughout her entire life, a fact that deeply influenced her writing.

In 1938, O’Connor moved to her mother’s hometown of Milledgeville and enrolled in Peabody High School, where she wrote and drew cartoons for the school newspaper.

In 1941, at age fifteen, O’Connor lost her father to lupus erythematosus, the same disease that would later take her life. She attended Georgia Sta