In her writings about her own fiction, this author identified the key moments in many of her stories as the point when her characters found ―grace‖, an idea influenced by her strong Catholic faith.
In her writings about her own fiction, this author identified the key moments in many of her stories as the point when her characters found ―grace‖, an idea influenced by her strong Catholic faith. She also chastised the critical establishment for overstressing the element of ―grotesque‖ in her genre of fiction, which was known as Southern Gothic. Her later short stories are collected in Everything Which Rises Must Converge and she wrote only one novel, Wise Blood.  The title short story of her most famous collection describes the bloodshed that follows when the grandmother of a family on a road trip recognizes an escaped convict known as the Misfit. FTP, who is this Georgia native and author of the short story collection, A Good Man is Hard to Find and Other Stories?
In her writings about her own fiction, this author identified the key moments in many of her stories as the point when her characters found ―grace‖, an idea influenced by her strong Catholic faith.
Flannery O’Connor