Fiction operates through the senses and I think one reason that people find it so difficult to write stories is that they forget how much time and patience is required to convince through the senses." BIOGRAPHICAL ESSAYMore than thirty years after her death at age thirty-nine, Flannery O'Connor is considered one of the great writers of the twentieth century. Although she wrote just two short novels and about thirty stories, O'Connor's originality set her fiction …showed first 75 words of 1182 total…

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