Yesterday, at Emory University's Woodruff Library in Atlanta, a collection of letters written to Elizabeth Hester by Flannery O'Connor, were unsealed and made available to the public.
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"... a man who appears frequently and unflatteringly in the correspondence of Georgia author Flannery O'Connor, showed up to take his medicine.
" "I was young then, in my 20s," said William Sessions, "and it's something to see myself written up by a master. Marvelous phrasing รข€” with a stiletto." "
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From Wikipedia... "An important voice in American literature, O'Connor wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing in a Southern Gothic style and relying heavily on regional settings and -- it is regularly said -- grotesque characters. However, she remarked "anything that comes out of the South is going to be called grotesque by the northern reader, unless it is grotesque, in which case it is going to be called realistic" (Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose 40). Her texts often take place in the South and revolve around morally flawed characters, while the issue of race looms in the background. One of her trademarks is unsubtle foreshadowing, giving a reader an idea of what will happen far before it happens. Finally, she brands each work with a disturbing and ironic conclusion."
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My favorite short story and a good story to read just to get a feel for O'Connor's style, is "A Good Man Is Hard to Find."
