Happy 100th Birthday Flannery O'Connor
To one of my favorite short story writers
It has to be some sort of coincidence that I finished reading ‘A Good Man is Hard to Find’, the world famous short story by Flannery O’Connor, just this evening, and as I am browsing through X right now, I figure it is her 100th birthday today. Of all the short story writers I have read, she is among the most beloved. Even though her life was cut short by lupus at age 39, her work endures her memory in the minds of her readers worldwide as evident by the outpouring of posts on X. Her stories are vivid, imaginative, and inhabit the reader’s mind long after reading them. There is so much more that I have to read of her, and that is all the better for me. A very happy 100th birthday.
TedEd produced a fantastic video as tribute to O’Connor’s works voiced by Iseult Gillespie which I adore. Watch.