![]() O'Connor, the author of two novels, and thirty-two short stories, has been the object of attention for Gooch since he was a graduate student in 1980, when he first approached the O'Connor estate about writing a biography. The book has received national attention with two reviews in the New York Times, one featured on the cover of the Book Review, and others in the Washington Post, the New York Review of Books, The Washington Times, USA Today, Time magazine, and in The Star-Ledger and the Record. The book was also included in other year-end lists, including The New Yorker's "Reviewers Favorites from 2009 " the Boston Globe's "Simply the Best Nonfiction " the Chicago Tribune's "Our Favorite Nonfiction of 2009 " and Atlantic Magazine's "Best 25 Books of 2009." Additionally, he was featured on a segment on Flannery O'Connor on PBS's "Religion and Ethics NewsWeekly," broadcast in November.įlannery, A Life of Flannery O'Connor, is the first major biography written about the Southern writer who died at thirty-nine in 1964, and has garnered praise since its publication earlier this year. ![]() A new biography of Flannery O'Connor, written by William Paterson University English professor Brad Gooch, has been included among the Top 100 Notable Books of the Year by the New York Times Book Review. ![]()
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