Flannery O'Connor, who grew up to be an important voice in American Literature, was born into a Catholic family in Savannah, Georgia. When O'Connor was five her aunt gave her a chicken that could walk backwards, and surprisingly this led to her first experience of being a celebrity. News people filmed O'Connor with her trained chicken, and showed the film around the country.O'Connor graduated from peabody Laboratory School in 1942. She then got admitted to Georgia State College for Women where she majored in English and Sociology.
Two novels and 31 short stories were written by O'Connor, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was considered by many as a Southern writer in the vein of William Faulkner, often writing a Southern Gothic style. Her two novels were Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear (1960).
O'Connor ceased away in 1998 but her reputation lives on.
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