Flannery O’Connor’s final letter was brief; and, it was still sitting on her nightstand when she died on August 3, 1964. Written on July 28th, less than a week before her death, she warned her friend, Maryat Lee, to “Be properly scared.”
Although O’Connor’s admonition on this occasion was a response to what appears to be a dangerous person harassing her…
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