Flannery O’Connor was the three-time winner of the O. Henry Award and the posthumous winner of the 1972 National Book Award for Fiction. In 2015, she was honored with a postage stamp from the United States Postal Service. Her childhood home and family’s farm, Andalusia, are both historic landmarks and museums today.
Kenyon Review Classics
Winter 1998
The Artificial Nigger
EDITOR’S NOTE: The Flannery O’Connor work that follows is reprinted as it was originally written for The Kenyon Review (Spring 1955). Any departures from current style, spellings, and usage have been […]
Fiction
Autumn 1960
The Comforts of Home
Thomas withdrew to the side of the window and with his head between the wall and the curtain he looked down on the driveway where the car had stopped. His […]
Fiction
Summer 1956
Greenleaf
Mrs. May’s bedroom window was low and faced on the east and the bull, silvered in the moonlight, stood under it, his head raised as if he listened—like some patient […]
Fiction
Spring 1955
The Artificial Nigger
Mr. Head awakened to discover that the room was full of moonlight. He sat up and stared at the floor boards—the color of silver—and then at the ticking on his […]
Fiction
Spring 1954
A Circle in the Fire
Sometimes the last line of trees was a solid grey blue wall a little darker than the sky but this afternoon it was almost black and behind it the sky […]
Fiction
Spring 1953
The Life You Save May Be Your Own
The old woman and her daughter were sitting on their porch when Mr. Shiftlet came up their road for the first time. The old woman slid to the edge of […]