@article{1557870,
      recid = {1557870},
      author = {Laborde, Katheryn Krotzer,},
      title = {Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (xxv, 190 pages) :},
      abstract = {"This book offers a unique twist to the Who's Who of  midcentury writers, editors, and artists. Much is made of  Flannery O'Connor's life on the Georgia dairy farm,  Andalusia-a rural setting that clearly influenced her  writing. But before she lived on that farm, before she  showed signs of having lupus, before she became dependent  on her mother and then succumbed to the disease at  thirty-nine, O'Connor lived in the northeast. She stayed at  the artists' colony Yaddo in 1948 and early 1949 and lived  in Connecticut with good friends from fall of 1949 through  all of 1950. But in between those experiences, and perhaps  more importantly, O'Connor lived in Manhattan. In her  biographies, little is said of her time in Gotham; in some  sources, this period gets no more than one sentence. But  little is said because little has been known. In Flannery  O'Connor's Manhattan, the author's goal is to explore New  York City from O'Connor's point of view. To do this, the  author consults not just letters (both unpublished and  published) and biography, but five personal address books  housed in Emory's Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and  Rare Book Library. The result is a book of interest to both  the O'Connor fan and the O'Connor scholar, not to mention  those interested in midcentury Manhattan. Flannery  O'Connor's Manhattan is part guide to the who-was-who and  who-lived-where of New York from roughly 1948 to 1964, at  least those as they mattered to O'Connor. It also acts as a  window to the writer's experiences in the city, whether she  was coming into town for a series of meetings or strolling  down Broadway on her way to lunch. In the end, it is the  combination of the who-she-knew and the what-she-did that  formed O'Connor's personal view of what is arguably the  most famous of American cities"--},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1557870},
}