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Mary Flannery O\u2019Connor (March 25 1925 \u2013 August 3 1964) was an American<\/a> novelist<\/a>, short-story<\/a> writer<\/a> and essayist<\/a>. An important voice in American literature<\/a>, O\u2019Connor wrote two novels and 32 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer<\/a> who often wrote in a Southern Gothic<\/a> style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque<\/a> characters. O\u2019Connor\u2019s writing also reflected her own Roman Catholic<\/a> faith, and frequently examined questions of morality<\/a> and ethics<\/a>. From 1956 through 1964, O\u2019Connor wrote more than one hundred book reviews for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia: The Bulletin, and The Southern Cross. According to fellow reviewer Joe Zuber, the wide range of books O\u2019Connor chose to review demonstrate that she was profoundly intellectual. Her reviews consistently confront theological and ethical themes in books written by the most serious and demanding theologians of her time. Professor of English, Carter Martin, an authority on O\u2019Connor\u2019s writings, notes simply that her \u201cbook reviews are at one with her religious life\u201d as a Roman Catholic. <\/div>\n
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