Question: Where was the fiction writer Flannery O’Connor born?
Answer: Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah on March 25, 1925, to Regina Cline and Edward F. O’Connor. Her family moved to a farm in Milledgeville called Andalusia in 1938, where Flannery O’Connor spent most of her adult life after contracting lupus, and her death in 1964.
Known for her distinctive Southern Gothic style, Flannery O’Connor’s work was characterized by grotesque characters and themes of morality and redemption. She wrote two novels, Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away, as well as numerous short stories compiled in collections such as A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Everything That Rises Must Converge.