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145 “Flannery, in spite of all”: Hansford Martin to Paul Engle, February 22, 1948, “Papers of Paul Engle,” UI.
145 “We would invite”: John Gruen, in discussion with the author, October 5, 2006.
145 “demon rewriter”: Kennedy, “A Last Conversation,” Agni, 182.
145 “Woman on the Stairs”: Tomorrow 8, no. 12 (August): 40–44. Tomorrow was published in New York by Garrett Publications between September 1941 and August 1951. Retitled “A Stroke of Good Fortune,” this story appeared in the Spring 1953 edition of Shenandoah,and as the fourth story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
145 “She read the story”: Jane Wilson, in discussion with the author, October 5, 2006.
146 “She had this air”: Norma Hodges, in discussion with the author, May 6, 2005.
146 “a personally shy”: Austin Warren to Elizabeth Ames, February 20, 1948, Yaddo.
146 “as much promise as anyone”: Andrew Lytle to Elizabeth Ames, February 24, 1948, Yaddo.
146 “one of the best young writers”: Paul Engle to Elizabeth Ames, April 2, 1949, Yaddo.
146 “Flannery seems happiest”: Hansford Martin to Paul Engle, April 24, 1948, “Papers of Paul Engle,” UI.
146 “I’d say the description”: Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 58.
146 “flat, nasal drawl”: Gene Brzenk to Jean Wylder, December 26, 1972, UI.
147 “For once there was not”: Wylder, “Flannery O’Connor,” 62.
CHAPTER FIVE: UP NORTH
148 “It did not take Georgia”: FOC to Elizabeth Ames, August 17, 1948, Yaddo.
149 “shadow”: Marjorie Peabody Waite, Yaddo: Yesterday and Today (Albany, N.Y.: Argus Press, 1933), 21.
149 “creating, creating, creating”: Ibid., 26.
149 “more distinguished activity”: John Cheever, statement included in the minutes of the meeting of The Corporation of Yaddo at Yaddo, September 7, 1968, Yaddo.
150 “and Flannery O’Connor”: Clifford Wright, “Diary,” June 8, 1948, Yaddo.
150 “very quiet”: Patricia Highsmith to Ronald Blythe, September 3, 1967; quoted in Andrew Wilson, Beautiful Shadow (New York: Bloomsbury, 2003), 141.
150 “I really think”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, December 10, 1959, HB, 362.
151 “She is like a well-meaning”: Robert Lowell to George Santayana, November 14, 1948, The Letters of Robert Lowell, edited by Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2005), 115.
151 “There was the same laughter”: Frederick Morton, in discussion with the author, November 19, 2006.
151 “ALL the time”: FOC to Paul Engle, April 7, 1949, CW, 883.
151 “I would have been happier”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, July 19, 1962, HB, 483.
151 Hillside Studio: Cecil Dawkins worked in Meadow Studio, in 1962; in a letter of August 1, 1962 (ibid.), O’Connor writes to Dawkins, of her own 1948 studio, “Might well have been the one you have now”; O’Connor’s description of her studio and her letter to Dawkins indicate that her studio was not on North Farm, used in 1948; of the three possible studios on the property, including Meadow, only Hillside had a “fireplace.”
152 “a long single room”: Ibid.
152 “greenpeaish”: FOC, “The Peeler,” unpublished manuscript, 6, Yaddo. In Wise Blood, Enoch’s tie is “the color of green peas,” CW, 23.
152 “In my whole time”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 21, 1957, HB, 241.
152 “arty”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 4, 1962, CW, 1171.
152 “At the breakfast table”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, December 23, 1959, CW, 1115.
153 “Miss Highsmith”: Wright, “Diary,” March 28, 1948.
153 “between those two stools”: Patricia Highsmith to Ronald Blythe, September 3, 1967; quoted in Wilson, Beautiful Shadow, 141.
153 “in any collection”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, December 23, 1959, CW, 1115.
153 “Dad had been a ragpicker”: Jim Shannon, in discussion with the author, May 25, 2005.
153 “all well over forty”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, December 23, 1959, CW, 1114.
154 “I remember she was”: Frederick Morton, in discussion with the author, November 19, 2006.
154 “She lives by a kind”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 19, 1960, HB, 383–84.
154 “an accomplished pianist”: Elizabeth Ames, “Paul Moor file,” Yaddo.
154 “Elizabeth