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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 . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm,…
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Flannery O’Connor is one of the great writers of the 20th Century. She was also a lifelong Catholic. Among the themes she explored in many of her letters to friends are the relationship between Christian faith and art and how a writer might share her vision of reality with an audience that didn’t necessarily want to see it.
Like O’Connor, Elisabeth Elliot wrote fiction to explore the action of grace in the darkness and chaos of human life, and like O’Connor, Elliot received harsh criticism of her work from many of her coreligionists. Elliot’s marginal notes in her own copy…
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