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ⓘ About Flannery O'Connor
Author Mary Flannery O’Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925, and was Regina Cline and Edward Francis O’Connor’s (who worked as a real estate agent) only kid. Her parents come from two of the oldest Catholic families in the state of Georgia. Her education started in the parochial schools in Savannah, and she was both an avid artist and reader. O’Connor wrote essays, two novels, and short stories. She is one of the great fiction writers to come from America, and was one of the biggest apologists for Roman Catholicism during the twentieth century. She was in a news film when she was only six that featured her and her chicken that could walk backwards. She felt that this was the high point in her life, and that everything was downhill after that.
All Book Series by Flannery O'Connor
Flannery O'Connor on Writing
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 2027
Sonny Liston Was a Friend of Mine
Book 7 of 28 · published 1998 Anthology · Thom Jones
The Shielding of Mrs Forbes
Book 9 of 28 · published 2011 Anthology · Alan Bennett
The Cheater's Guide to Love
Book 10 of 28 · published 2012 Anthology · Junot Díaz
Come Rain or Come Shine
Book 14 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Kazuo Ishiguro
Dante and the Lobster
Book 16 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Samuel Beckett
The Lydia Steptoe Stories
Book 19 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Djuna Barnes
Mary Ventura and The Ninth Kingdom
Book 20 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Sylvia Plath
The Forester's Daughter
Book 23 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Claire Keegan
Three Types of Solitude
Book 24 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Brian W. Aldiss
Intruders
Latest in the series · book 28 of 28 · published 2019 Anthology · Adrian Tomine
Listening for God Reader, Vol. 1
Series opener · book 1 of 4 · published 1994 Co-authored · Raymond Carver,Alice Walker,Garrison Keillor,Annie Dillard,Richard Rodríguez,Patricia Hampl,Peter Hawkins,Frederick Buechner,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins
Listening for God, Vol. 2
Book 2 of 4 · published 1996 Anthology · Anne Tyler,John Updike,Tobias Wolff,Gail Godwin,Henry Louis Gates Jr.,Kathleen Norris,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,Carol Bly,Andrew Dubus
Listening for God, Vol. 3
Book 3 of 4 · published 2000 Anthology · Tillie Olsen,Wendell Berry,John Cheever,Louise Erdrich,Mary Gordon,Tess Gallagher,Reynolds Price,Oscar Hijuelos,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins
Listening For God, Vol. 4
Latest in the series · book 4 of 4 · published 2002 Anthology · Robert Olen Butler,Allegra Goodman,James Baldwin,Kent Haruf,SueMiller,Doris Betts,Paula J. Carlson,Peter S. Hawkins,MichaelMalone,Alice Elliot Dark
Volume III:A Fabulous, Formless Darkness
Latest in the series · book 3 of 3 · published 1991
First Fiction: An Anthology of the First Published Stories by Famous Writers
Book 10 of 21 · published 1994
The Modern Library: The 200 Best Novels in English Since 1950
Book 14 of 21 · published 1999
Plough Quarterly No. 4: Earth
Latest in the series · book 21 of 21 · published 2015
? Frequently Asked Questions
Who is Flannery O'Connor?
Author Mary Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925, and was Regina Cline and Edward Francis O'Connor's (who worked as a real estate agent) only kid. Her parents come from two of the oldest Catholic families in the state of Georgia. Her education started in the parochial schools in Savannah, and she was both an avid artist and reader.
Which Flannery O'Connor series should I start with?
The best place to start is the Faber Stories series, the earliest of Flannery O'Connor's multi-book series: it opens with A Good Man Is Hard To Find (1955) and runs to 28 books across 1955–2019, ending with Intruders (2019). Flannery O'Connor's other series stand alone, so they can be read in any order.
How many books has Flannery O'Connor written?
Flannery O'Connor has 67 books catalogued in this guide, published between 1952 and 2027. 35 of them belong to 3 named series — the largest being the Faber Stories series with 28 books — and 32 are standalone titles, collections or anthologies.
In what order should Flannery O'Connor's series be read?
Read each series in publication order — the numbered entries in each series follow the year each book first appeared. Flannery O'Connor's series do not depend on one another, so they can be started in any order; by start date they are Faber Stories (1955–2019, 28 books), The Dark Descent (1987–1991, 3 books) and Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith (1994–2002, 4 books).
How are Flannery O'Connor's books organised into series?
This guide splits Flannery O'Connor's 67 books into 3 named series and 32 titles that stand alone or appear only in collections: Faber Stories (28 books, 1955–2019); Contemporary Literature and the Life of Faith (4 books, 1994–2002); The Dark Descent (3 books, 1987–1991).