kathyann Myers Discussion 10 “A good man is hard to find” by Flannery O’Connor

Flannery O’Connor produced a few works in her short lifetime of 39 years. She was considered one of the most important short story writers of the twentieth century because of her interesting characters. O’Connor was the only child of wealthy parents she went high school in Milledgeville, Georgia. Her father Edward Francis O’Connor died when she was sixteen from Lupus, that same disease later took her life. In college she majored in Social Sciences and edited and wrote for school publications. She later received a master’s degree in writing from Iowa State university in 1947. After completing graduate school, she attended the prestigious Yaddo writer’s colony in upstate New York then moved to Connecticut to live with her good friends Sally and Robert Fitzgerald. She wrote steadily through the 1950s. She won three o. Henry memorial awards for her short stories, a ford foundation grant, a national institute of arts and letters grant in literature and two honorary doctor’s degrees during her lifetime. http://”A Good Man Is Hard to Find.” Short Stories for Students, edited by Kathleen Wilson, vol. 2, Gale, 1997, pp. 97-114. Gale eBooks, link.gale.com/apps/doc/CX2694900016/GLS?u=cuny_mancc&sid=bookmark-GLS&xid=92e4a36c. Accessed 24 Oct. 2022.