March 31, 1925
On March 31, 1925, short story writer and novelist Flannery O’Connor was born. O’Connor was born in Savannah Georgia to Edward Francis O’Connor, a real estate agent, and Regina Cline. In 1940, the family moved to Milledgeville, Georgi, where her father was diagnosed with systemic lupus erythematosus, which led to his death. On August 3, 1964, O’Connor would also die from lupus.
O’Connor wrote two noevels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries, primarily for two Catholic diocesan newspapers in Georgia. Her Complete Stories, which were posthumously compiled, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1972.