id author title date pages extension mime words sentences flesch summary cache txt en-wikipedia-org-9282 Flannery O'Connor - Wikipedia .html text/html 5361 756 71 Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925 – August 3, 1964) was an American novelist, short story writer and essayist. She received an M.F.A. from the University of Iowa in 1947.[16] During the summer of 1948, O'Connor continued to work on Wise Blood at Yaddo, an artists' community in Saratoga Springs, New York, where she also completed several short stories.[17] Throughout her life, O'Connor maintained a wide correspondence,[29] including with writers Robert Lowell and Elizabeth Bishop,[30] English professor Samuel Ashley Brown,[30] and playwright Maryat Lee.[31] After her death, a selection of her letters, edited by her friend Sally Fitzgerald, was published as The Habit of Being.[32][30] Much of O'Connor's best-known writing on religion, writing, and the South is contained in these and other letters.[citation needed] ./cache/en-wikipedia-org-9282.html ./txt/en-wikipedia-org-9282.txt