O'Connor, Flannery
Encyclopedia article; The Columbia Encyclopedia, Sixth Edition, 2009
...OCONNOR, FLANNERY (Mary Flannery OConnor), 1925 64, American author, b. Savannah, Ga., grad. Womens College of Georgia (A.B., 1945...and touched by mordant wit, her fiction treats 20th-century Southern life in terms of stark, brutal comedy and violent tragedy...