For 10 points, name this author of "Good Country People", "Everything ThatRises Must Converge", and "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
In one story by this author, a character poses the question "You ever ate a chicken that was twodays old?" to the atheist Hulga, after which that character, a Bible-seller named Manley Pointer,steals her prosthetic leg and runs away. She also wrote of a woman traveling to a reducing class atthe Y with her son Julian, whose dignity is offended by a hat-wearing (*) black woman who forbids herchild from accepting a penny. In another of her stories, a woman talks to Red Sammy at The Tower on theway to a vacation in Florida with her family; a panicking cat later causes that character's car to crash, afterwhich the Misfit kills her. For 10 points, name this author of "Good Country People", "Everything ThatRises Must Converge", and "A Good Man is Hard to Find."
In one story by this author, a character poses the question "You ever ate a chicken that was twodays old?"
Flannery O'Connor [or Mary Flannery O'Connor]