Those two stories are titled "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "The Life You Save
Julian's mother tries to give a Black woman's child a penny and dies from the blow she receives in one story by this author. In another, Tom Shiftlett revives a dead car for Mrs. Crater and then takes her slow daughter Lucynell to The Hot Spot, where he abandons her. Those two stories are titled "Everything That Rises Must Converge" and "The Life You Save May Be Your Own." Red Sammy appears in this author's work about the Misfit's murder of the Grandmother. For 10 points, name this Southern Gothic author of "Good Country People" and "A Good Man Is Hard to Find".
Julian's mother tries to give a Black woman's child a penny and dies from the blow she receives in one story by this author.
Flannery {O'Connor}