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Flannery O’Connor Was Definitely Not PC, but That’s Just Half the Story

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No telling where O’Connor was heading with her unfinished novel, “Why Do the Heathen Rage?” But, as always, she was as hard on herself as she was on any character or reader.

A photograph of Flannery O'Connor sitting on the steps of her home in Milledgeville, Ga. on Sept. 22, 1959.
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