Flannery O’Connor – 20th-century American writer, author of “Wise Blood” and “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”. Known for her Southern Gothic style, she mixed religious themes with irony and dark humour. Despite her short life, she left a lasting legacy in American literature.
📖 Suffered from lupus and spent much of her life in seclusion. 🐓 As a child, became famous for teaching a chicken to walk backward. 📚 Wrote only two novels and around 30 short stories, yet became a literary icon. 🌾 Lived on a farm in Georgia, raising peacocks. ✝️ Her fiction dealt with sin, grace, and moments of revelation. 🎭 Critiqued hypocrisy and moral emptiness in the American South. 💡 In letters, she said writing was something she simply “could not avoid doing.” 🏆 Her “Complete Stories” won the U.S. National Book Award posthumously. 📜 Combined stark realism with surreal, grotesque elements. 😂 Curious: called her peacocks “true philosophers” because “they always know something we don’t.” 😅 Funny fact: joked that Southern writers are born “with a freakish eye for life.”