Flannery O'Connor by Mary Carpenter - 9780820360508

University of Georgia Press

Flannery O'ConnorA Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind\nAuthor(s): Mary Carpenter\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: University of Georgia Press, United States\nImprint: University of Georgia Press\nISBN-13: 9780820360508, 978-0820360508\nSynopsis\nIn her biography of writer Flannery OConnor [tel], ne Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors. With an accessible style of writing, Flannery OConnor gives younger readers an overview of OConnors life and examines the influences, such as her family, region, and education, that helped her become one of the most respected fiction writers of the twentieth century. In a frank but age-appropriate manner, Carpenter discusses the writers rural southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus, and her Catholic faith. The book will appeal to younger (nine- to ten-year-old) readers with sophisticated interests along with, and maybe more importantly, those older middle-school students who .