![]() ![]() Where O’Connor was a low-key figure who spent most of her life in the rural Georgia town where she grew up, Lee moved to New York and schmoozed her way into the nation’s literary elite. But the main reason why Lee is worshipped and O’Connor is ignored is because once again, Lee was an entrepreneur masquerading as a social critic. O’Connor was also a devout Catholic, which has been a death sentence in English-speaking countries ever since the days of Henry VIII. ![]() Part of it is because O’Connor died young, wasting away from lupus not long after her 39th birthday. But I guarantee that most of the non-humanities-majoring public has never heard her name.Īll of the attention goes to O’Connor’s pious fraud contemporary Harper Lee. Unlike Céline, she hasn’t been totally written out of the history books because O’Connor had the good fortune to be born with a vagina, the Beigeists begrudgingly include a couple of her short stories in the college English curriculum. Flannery O’Connor is another great writer who’s been sidelined by the Western literary establishment for the dumbest of reasons. ![]()
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