It Takes a Story to Make a Story: Flannery O'Connor's Life and Imagination

February 9, 2013
University of North Carolina
Pleasants Room, Wilson Library
WILLIAM SESSIONS, Regents' Professor of English Emeritus at Georgia State University, is the author of the forthcoming authorized biography of Flannery O'Connor. The Founding Editor of The Carolina Quarterly (University of North Carolina, Chapel Hill) and Studies in the Literary Imagination (Georgia State University), he has won numerous awards, including the Nikos Kazantzakis Medal from Greece, the Outstanding Teacher Award for the South Atlantic Association of Departments of English and an honorary degree from Coastal Carolina University. His poetry has been published in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, and The Chattahoochee Review, among others. He has written several plays, including A Shattering of Glass, a winner in the Southern Theatre Playwrights Competition and produced at the University of Mississippi for the Festival of Southern Theatre.

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A down to earth presentation of a friend's perception of connections between Flannery O'Connor's life and the writing of stories.

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"the yoda"

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Honestly, the speaker needs to get out of the house more. I bet you his family wishes the same thing.

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What kind of person hides behind a cat making unkind rude comments,

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@@starwarsequalslife Take the truth where you can find it sweet pee.