A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story)  From Wikipedia, the
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Hard to Find" Author Flannery O'Connor Country United States
Language English Genre(s) Short story, Southern Gothic
Publication type Collection Media type Print Publication date
1955    The story was first published in 1953 in the anthology
The Avon Book of Modern Writing.[1] In 1960, it was collected in
the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles
Scribner's Sons. "A Good Man Is Hard To Find," because of its
publication in many anthologies, became the most well known of
O'Connor's works.[2]  Plot summary[edit]  A man named Bailey
intends to take his family from Georgia to Florida for a summer
vacation, but his mother, (referred to as "the grandmother" in
the story) wants him to drive to Tennessee. She argues that his
children, June Star and John Wesley, have never been to
Tennessee and shows him a news article about an escaped murderer
called The Misfit last seen heading to F