Flannery O'Connor, Hermit Novelist
"Lord, I''m glad I''m a hermit novelist," Flannery O''Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O''Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive time she developed a fascination with fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment and whose isolation, suffering, and faith m...
"Lord, I''m glad I''m a hermit novelist," Flannery O''Connor wrote to a friend in 1957. Sequestered by ill health, O''Connor spent the final thirteen years of her life on her isolated family farm in rural Georgia. During this productive time she developed a fascination with fourth-century Christians who retreated to the desert for spiritual replenishment and whose isolation, suffering, and faith m...
