Mary Flannery O'Connor

A Biographical Sketch of a Christian Humanist in the American South

Born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925, the infant O’Connor was baptized on Easter afternoon, April 12th. Named Mary Flannery after the wife of a Civil War hero, Captain John Flannery, O’Connor grew up in a devout Irish Catholic family at a time when the “War Between the States” was still in living memory of many Southerners.

O’Connor was educated …