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127 “Although I reckon”: Jean Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor, A Reminiscence and Some Letters,” North American Review 225, no. 1 (Spring 1970): 59.
127 “Then I began to write”: FOC interview with Harvey Breit, Galley Proof, WRCA-TV (NBC), New York, May 1955, Con, 6.
128 “When R. P. Warren”: Hall, “Our Workshops Remembered,” 6.
128 “Horgan never even knew”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1957, CW, 1042.
128 “a sort of waif of the art of writing”: Paul Horgan to Father Quinn, April 25, 1969, HB.
128 “I write only about two hours”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, September 22, 1957, CW, 1042.
129 “in a rather uncertain”: Allen Maxwell to FOC, July 16, 1946, GCSU.
129 “an easier, freer childhood”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor, Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,” Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 417.
129 “kindred spirits”: Barbara Tunnicliff Hamilton, “Flannery in Iowa City,” unpublished essay, 1, private collection.
129 “They would have house parties”: Barbara Tunnicliff Hamilton, in discussion with the author, October 2, 2005.
130 “business woman”: Hamilton, “Flannery in Iowa City,” 2.
130 “I didn’t bother her”: Barbara Tunnicliff Hamilton, in discussion with the author, October 2, 2005.
130 “had to”: Hamilton, “Flannery in Iowa City,” 1.
130 “She was very serious”: Barbara Tunnicliff Hamilton, in discussion with the author, October 2, 2005.
130 “With the door open”: Barbara Tunnicliff Hamilton, e-mail to the author, September 30, 2006.
131 “When more than half”: Doris Cone, “Writers’ Workshop at Iowa U. Draws New York Publisher,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, November 24, 1946.
131 “The Barber”: The story was first published in New Signatures: A Collection of College Writing, edited by Alan Swallow (Prairie City, Ill.: James A. Decker, 1948), 113–24. For a discussion of the story’s prob-able debt to Ring Lardner’s “The Haircut,” see Sarah Gordon, Flannery O’Connor: The Obedient Imagination (Atlanta: University of Georgia Press, 2000), 65.
131 “Flannery’s answer”: Jean Cash, “O’Connor in the Iowa Writers’ Workshop,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 24 (1995–96): 71.
132 “She once said to my wife”: James B. Hall, e-mail to the author, September 6, 2006.
132 “I see I should ride”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 16, 1957, CW, 1050.
132 black woman: Ralph C. Wood, Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South (Grand Rapids, Mich.: Wm. B. Eerdmans, 2004), 102.
132 “Iowa Barber School”: FOC to Robie Macauley, October 13, 1953, CW, 914.
133 “like Billy Grahme”: Folder 17, GCSU.
133 “He thought of Bing Crosby”: Ibid. Actually O’Connor was confusing Boys Town, starring Spencer Tracy, with two films in which Bing Crosby played a priest — Going My Way (1944) and The Bells of St. Mary’s (1945).
133 “Now, Miss O’Connor”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 95.
133 “I didn’t really start”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955, CW, 950–51.
134 “It started when”: Paul Levine, “The Soul of the Grotesque,” Minor American Novelists, edited by Charles Alva Hoyt (Carbondale and Edwardsville: Southern Illinois University Press, 1970), 107.
134 “a journey that never impressed”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 31, 1959, HB, 317.
134 Dixie Limited: In her talk “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction,” O’Connor compared Faulkner to the Dixie Limited: “The presence alone of Faulkner in our midst makes a great difference in what the writer can and cannot permit himself to do. Nobody wants his mule and wagon stalled on the same track the Dixie Limited is roaring down,” CW, 818.
134 “the dilapidated station”: “1 p. working draft,” GCSU.
134 “I sat down next to”: FOC to Maryat Lee, April 28, 1960, HB, 392–93.
135 “the Oedipus complex”: “Look for Their Names on the Bindings,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 10, 1948.
135 “a thump of recognition”: FOC, “Wise Blood, working draft,” GCSU.
136 “pizen snake”: Andrew Nelson Lytle, “The Hind Tit,” I’ll Take My Stand: The South and the Agrarian Tradition, by