Southern Discomfort
The origins of Flannery O’Connor’s unsettling fictional world
Wendy Lesser
Flannery O'Connor:
Collected Works
by Flannery O'Connor
Library of America
$35.00 List Price
Even then, it was obvious she was a genius,” said Miss Katherine Scott, Flannery O’Connor’s freshman-composition teacher, speaking to a reporter many years later about her most famous student—“warped, but a genius all the same.” The teacher no doubt focused on the warped part when the seventeen-year-old Catholic girl with the spectacles and the searing wit took her writing class at Milledgeville’s Georgia
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