The Habit of Being : Letters of Flannery O'Connor

Sally Fitzgerald; Sally Fitzgerald
Farrar, Straus and Giroux
 9780374521042
0-374-52104-2

Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters.

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. . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."?Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction