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Flannery was born on March 25, 1925 daughter of Edward F. and Regina L. O’Connor in Savannah Georgia. Her parents’ only child she grew up in their Catholic home in Savannah until she was twelve (Baumgaertner 5). At age twelve her family moved from Savannah to Milledgeville, the town where her mother’s father had been mayor for a number of years. In Milledgeville she attended Peabody High School and after graduation enrolled in the Georgia State College for Women (Whitt 6). These schools were both only a few blocks from Flannery’s childhood home in the antebellum Cline House (McKenzie 38). After graduating from Georgia State College for women in 1945 with an A.B., O’Connor furthered her education by attending the University of Iowa. Her first short story ‘The Geranium’ was published at age 21 while attending school in Iowa (Liukkonen). After receiving her Master of Fine Arts in Literature from the University of Iowa, O’Connor moved her life to New York. While in New York, O’Connor was able to publish her first Novel, Wise Blood. The first four chapters appeared in various magazines in 1948 and 1949. In 1952 the entire book was published. In 1978, long after O’Connor’s death a screen
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