Flannery_ A Life of Flannery O'Connor - Brad Gooch [192]
136 “I was told later”: Andrew Lytle, Esprit: Journal of Thought and Opinion 8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 33.
136 “make a federal case”: Hall, “Our Workshops Remembered,” 11.
136 “She would put a man in bed”: Carl H. Griffin, “Andrew Lytle at DeKalb College, a Return Engagement,” Chattahoochee Review 8, no. 4 (Summer 1988): 98.
136 “sink the theme”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 28, 1957, Emory.
136 “a bale of cotton”: James B. Hall, e-mail to the author, September 6, 2006.
136 “She was a lovely girl”: Griffin, “Andrew Lytle,” 97–98.
136 “Why, she can just walk”: James B. Hall, e-mail to the author, July 14, 2005.
137 “People who were favored”: Eugene Brown, in discussion with the author, October 6, 2006.
137 “It comes to us all”: “Look for Their Names on the Bindings,” Cedar Rapids Gazette, June 10, 1948.
137 “She paid me for doing”: Hamilton, “Flannery in Iowa City,” 3.
137 “Her magnified eyes”: Norma Hodges, “Flannery,” River King Poetry Supplement 2, no. 3 (Autumn 1996): 4.
137 T. S. Eliot’s: O’Connor’s adult library contained twelve of Eliot’s books. For a discussion of Eliot’s influence on O’Connor, see: Sally Fitzgerald, “The Owl and the Nightingale,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 13 (Autumn 1984): 44–58.
137 “His search for a physical home”: FOC, “SYNOPSIS: (after first four chapters),” GCSU.
138 “typed”: “Flannery O’Connor Wins Rinehart-Iowa Award for Novel,” Daily Iowan, May 29, 1947.
138 “We had dinner there”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 93.
139 “She was a loner”: Charles Embree, in discussion with the author, October 3, 2006.
139 “It was wholly typical”: Paul Engle to Robert Giroux, July 13, 1971, FSG.
139 “In spring, it was as though”: Hall, “Our Workshops Remembered,” 8.
139 “Andrew was talking”: James B. Hall, e-mail to the author, July 14, 2005.
139 “I was in Milledgeville”: Frances Florencourt, e-mail to the author, October 26, 2006.
140 Old Dental Building: In a letter to the author, dated October 29, 2006, Robert Yackshaw wrote, “I have spent time with her at the Student Union. And at the Library. And much more at The Old Dental Building next to University Hall: the place where graduate assistants had offices with lower members of the English faculty.”
140 “was most a hundred”: FOC to Roslyn Barnes, September 29, 1960, HB, 410.
140 “Mrs. Guzeman was not very fond”: FOC to Jean Williams Wylder, December 28, 1952, quoted in Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 60.
140 “Flannery was sitting alone”: Ibid., 58.
141 “I doubt if Flannery”: Ibid., 59.
141 “He was a brilliant”: Bernie Halperin, in discussion with the author, June 25, 2005.
141 “entirely original”: Thomas E. Kennedy, “A Last Conversation with Robie Macauley,” Agni 45 (Boston College: 1997): 182.
141 “I used to date”: Robie Macauley to Steve Wilbers, April 16, 1976, UI.
142 “We ate in a big”: Cash, Flannery O’Connor, 100.
142 “Robie took care”: Ibid., 99.
142 “Flannery and I”: Ibid.
142 “party man . . . soul mate”: Ibid.
143 “So I reckon”: Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 59.
143 “tame and friendly”: Robert Lowell to Allen Tate, March 15, 1950, Princeton.
143 “He was so sensitive”: James B. Hall, “Our Workshops Remembered,” 7.
143 “simple, austere”: FOC to Mary Virginia Harrison, “Tuesday,” GSCU.
143 “When it was gone”: Hank Messick to Stephen Wilbers, July 21, 1976, UI.
144 “right nice”: Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 59.
144 “two black bears”: FOC, Complete Stories, 90; in “The Heart of the Park,” Hazel’s last name is Weaver.
144 “completely absorbed”: Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 60.
144 “two indifferent bears”: FOC to Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, March 17, 1953, CW. The two lions once in City Park had reportedly been brought back from Africa by Harry Bremer, who kept them in his carriage house before giving them to the zoo: Gerald Mansheim, Iowa City: An Illustrated History (Norfolk, Va.: Donning Company Publishers, 1989), 164.
144 “barbarous Georgia accent”: FOC to Carl Hartman, March 2, 1954, CW, 922.
145 “Flannery