The New Flannery O’Connor Biography

I just started it yesterday (Flannery, by Brad Gooch). I’m coming to it pretty much without preconceptions—haven’t read any reviews or heard anyone talk about it beyond the fact that it exists. I’m a little concerned about how her faith is going to be treated, but so far (40 pages or so) it seems ok, at least. Has anybody else read it?

Seems she was a character in a Flannery O’Connor story from the beginning (note: her father’s name was Ed):

A cartoon that O’Connor drew when she was nine years old shows a child walking with her father and mother. In a balloon coming from the mother’s mouth are the words “Hold your head up, Mary Flannery, and you are just as bad, Ed.” To which the girl, dragging along, snidely replies, “I was readin where someone died of holding up their head.”

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