Critical Companion to Flannery O’Connor

Critical Companion to Flannery O’Connor examines the writer’s life and output and includes analysis of all her major works, as well as entries on related topics and relevant people, places, and influences. Coverage includes: a concise but thorough biography of O’Connor; entries on O’Connor’s works, including major entries on her stories and two novels, as well as entries on her essays. Characters in her fiction are included as subentries, and a special section is devoted to extensive coverage of her letters, which were collected in the award-winning volume The Habit of Being. Also included are entries on related friends and literary influences, places, themes, and special topics, and appendixes, including a chronology, a bibliography of O’Connor’s works, and a secondary source bibliography.