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Flannery O'Connor

Flannery O'Connor was born on March 25, 1925 in Savannah, Georgia. When she was 15, her father died from systemic lupus erythematosus, the same disease that would kill her at the age of 39. She attended both Georgia State University for Women and The University of Iowa where she studied writing and published her first short story, "The Geranium." O'Connor realized in college that she loved creative writing over journalism. She died on August 3, 1962 from a tumor, but went down in history as a phenomenal writer.

__** Fun Facts: **__ - Each year, the University of Georgia honors O’Connor by giving The Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. - O'Connor was also a devout Catholic and visited Rome to visit the Pope in the later years of her life even though she was deathly ill. - When she was a little girl, O’Connor trained a chicken to walk backwards and became a bit of a celebrity as a result. O’Connor showed her sense of humor when she said, “That was the most exciting thing that ever happened to me. It’s all been downhill from there.” - She loved writing letters to her family and friends later in her life because she was too ill to go visit them.

By Scooby and Shaggy