John the Baptist, where the family attended Mass. Starting in , Flannery would visit Milledgeville occasionally. Her mother, Regina Cline O'Connor, came from a prominent family in Milledgeville: her father had been the mayor of Milledgeville for many years. While attending high school and college in Milledgeville, Flannery began her literary career by regularly contributing satirical creative writing and artwork to her school publications.
She also served on the yearbook and newspaper staffs. Her thesis at Iowa was a collection of short stories entitled The Geranium , which contains the seed of her first novel.
Her father remained in Atlanta, joining them on weekends. An only child, Flannery grew accustomed to living with a lively extended family. She and her mother shared their house with two maiden aunts, a great-aunt, an uncle and a boarder. Various uncles and cousins frequently visited. She graduated with a major in Sociology, though fiction writing had been her real interest since childhood.
Originally published Jul 10, Last edited Apr 5, Most significant, she contributed fiction, essays, and occasional poems to the Corinthian , demonstrating early on her penchant for satire and comedy.
Her closest friends recall her sly humor, her disdain for mediocrity, and her often merciless attacks on affectation and triviality.
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All the contextualizing produces a seesaw effect, as it variously cordons off the author from history, deems her a product of racist history, and proposes that she was as oppressed by that history as anybody else was.
Another writer of that cohort is Toni Morrison, who was born in Ohio in and became a Catholic at the age of twelve.
They all give me a pain and the more of them I see, the less and less I like them. Particularly the new kind. Those remarks show a view clearly maintained and growing more intense as time went on.
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