Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor (1925–1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist of the Southern Gothic tradition. Her Catholic faith shapes stories that ask what grace can do with characters unwilling to receive it. Her novels include Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, and her stories are collected in A Good Man Is Hard to Find and The Complete Stories. The Complete Stories won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.