O'Connor was born in 1925 Savannah, Ga., on leafy Lafayette Square, still dominated by the massive Cathedral of St. John the Baptist visible from the O'Connors' doorstep. Roman Catholicism was central ...

Who says there’s no such thing as nepotism in Hollywood? After all, there’s no way that Ethan Hawke would have got the gig directing Wildcat if he wasn’t the star's father. “She ended up turning her ...

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There's an entire subset of bookish young women who've gone through a Flannery O'Connor phase (it usually comes somewhere right before or after the Sylvia Plath obsession). With Wildcat, Maya Hawke ...

A new documentary film about one of Georgia’s most eminent writers, Flannery O’Connor, will have its digital premiere online Friday, July 17. “Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” ...

There have been many biographies of Flannery O’Connor written in the last two decades and critical studies on her work continues to grow, especially concerning O’Connor’s life and her work around ...

A new documentary film about one of Georgia’s most eminent writers, Flannery O’Connor, had its digital premiere Friday. “Flannery: The Storied Life of the Writer from Georgia,” includes interviews ...

The two leads each play six roles in a film that intertwines the Southern writer’s literary creations with a key part of her biography. By Sheri Linden Senior Copy Editor/Film Critic At one point in ...

Before her untimely death in 1964, novelist Flannery O'Connor wrote, "As for biographies, there won't be any biographies of me because, for only one reason, lives spent between the house and the ...

A panel discussion on February 23 will feature O’Connor scholars Mark Bosco, Patricia West, and Angela Alaimo O'Donnell, who will discuss the themes of faith, race, and disability in O’Connor’s works.

Please join us to watch a film about one of America's most iconic Catholic writers followed by a discussion with the film's producer, Mark Bosco, S.J.,and one of the most respected scholars of ...