Flannery O’Connor - Milledgeville, GA - Grave of a Famous Person on Waymarking.com

“Your beliefs will be the light by which you see, but they will not be what you see, and they will not be a substitute for seeing.”
- Flannery O'Connor

Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia in 1925. She spent her first thirteen years in Savannah before moving with her family to Milledgeville in the central part of the state. When she was just 15 years old, her father died of lupus. An avid reader and artist, she often contributed to school newspapers, both articles and cartoons, eventually publishing her first story, ‘The Geranium’ in 1946.

O’Connor’s best known for her two novels, ‘Wise Blood’ and ‘The Violent Bear It Away’ and several collections of short stories. One of these, ‘A Good Man Is Hard to Find’ was required reading in a literature class I took back in college. Tragically, her career was cut short when she died in 1964 at the age of 39 from lupus, the same disease that claimed her father. A prolific letter writer, O’Connor maintained a correspondence with many other authors and poets. An anthology of these letters was published posthumously in 1972.

And Flannery O’Connor was a big fan of birds. She got her first taste of notoriety at the age of six when a chicken she had trained to walk backwards was filmed and shown around the country. She sewed a complete outfit for her pet duck in high school and maintained a flock of about 100 pea fowl on her farm in Milledgeville. So significant were peacocks to Flannery O’Connor that peacock feathers were used as a backdrop for a 2014 U.S. postage stamp honoring the author.
(Source: georgiaencyclopedia.org)

Description: Flannery O’Connor is laid to rest in Memory Hill Cemetery in Milledgeville. Date of birth: 03/25/1925 Date of death: 08/03/1964 Area of notoriety: Literature Marker Type: Horizontal Marker Setting: Outdoor Visiting Hours/Restrictions: none Fee required?: No Web site: [Web Link]

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