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Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. O'Connor's writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic faith, and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics.
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Mary Flannery O'Connor
Savannah
Georgia
lupus
Milledgeville
American South
Mary Flannery O'Connor was born March 25th, 1925, in the southern city of Savannah, Georgia. The year she was born, her father developed a rare disease called lupus. He died of the disease in 1941. By that time the family was living in the small southern town of Milledgeville, Georgia, in a house owned by Flannery's mother. Life in a small town in the American South was what O'Connor knew best. Yet she said, "If you know who you are, you can go anywhere. "玛丽弗兰纳里·奥康纳于1925年3月25日生于佐治亚州的南部城市萨凡纳市。她出生的那年,她的父亲患上了一种叫做红斑狼疮的罕见病,并于1941年死于该病。那时候她的家庭还住在米利奇维尔,佐治亚州南部的一个小镇上,弗兰纳里的母亲的房子里。弗兰纳里对美国南部地区小镇生活了解颇深。她曾说过:“只要你能知道自己是谁,你可以到任何地方。”
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