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Tuesday, March 3, 2009 12:00 AM

A Southern Gothic legend is hard to find

Flannery O'Connor wrote two novels and died young, but her influence has been vast. Why has it taken half a century for her to get a definitive biography?
By Allen Barra

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  • Monday, March 2, 2009 08:42 PM

    and lest we forget: Killdozer

    in the immortal (if slightly inaccurate) words of their like-named song, "Lupus took the life of Flannery O'Connor; she wrote many books before death came upon her."

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