![]() ![]() She was conservative and anti-integrationist. She asked for criticism and accepted or discarded it according to its merits. She took no guff about finances connected with her work. She was at home with the foremost literary figures of the day: Lowell, the Tates, Elizabeth Bishop, J. The idea of the spinster lady with lupus living cut off from the world in Milledgeville, Georgia, a primitive who raised peahens and a queer kind of ruckus-religious and weird-in her fiction, is dispelled. Being Southern, being Catholic, and being ill had a lot to do with that, and these hundreds of letters give O'Connor's tough, funny, careful personality to us more distinctly and movingly than any biography probably would. ![]() Flannery O'Connor's best fiction seemed almost pre-grooved, as though she merely poured ink-and vividness-into grooves of mysterious life that were already whitely there. ![]()
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