With its proximity to the cultural hub of New York City and its quieter suburban and rural landscapes, Connecticut was fertile ground for artists and writers in the period of Modernist movements between 1913 and 1979. Many of these cultural figures are well known through biographical and critical studies. Creative Places seeks to show how place played a significant role in creative work, and how in turn the artists and writers influenced communities in Connecticut.
Flannery O'Connor
Fiction
1925 – 1964
- Biography/Description of Work
O’Connor was born and did most of her short story and novel writing in Georgia. She moved to Redding in 1949, living with poet Robert Fitzgerald for a year and a half, when she learned she had lupus. She returned to Georgia then, but during that year and a half wrote much of her first novel “Wise Blood” published in 1952.
- Sources view
- Dennis Paget: They All Lived in Redding, http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flannery_O'Connor, http://mediaspecialist.org/, http://andalusiafarm.org/author/flannery.htm, http://www.biography.com/people/flannery-oconnor-9426760 Flannery O'Connor Article - New York Times - 1964-8-5, Flannery O'Connor Article - New York Times - 1965-5-27, Flannery O'Connor Article - New York Times - 1972-4-12, Flannery O'Connor Article - New York Times - 1988-10-2, Flannery O'Connor Article - New York Times - 2007-2-4, Flannery O'Connor Obituary - New York Times - 1964-8-4
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