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179 “comes in there August 15”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, August 13, 1957, CC, 59.
179 “Me and Enoch”: FOC to Robie Macauley, [n.d.], CW, 886.
180 “miles from anything”: FOC to Betty Boyd, [n.d.], CW, 883.
180 Redding: The Fitzgeralds, and O’Connor, used a Ridgefield mailing address — R.D.4/Ridgefield, Conn. — because rural delivery to that portion of Redding was handled at the time by the Ridgefield post office.
180 “hurt their feet”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xiii.
180 “which I find”: FOC to Betty Boyd, October 17, 1949, HB, 16.
180 “looking slender”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xiv.
180 “Flannery would lie”: “Panel Discussion: GCSU, April 3, 1977,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 6 (1977): 79.
181 “while the dinner”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 1, 1956, HB, 161.
181Miss Lonelyhearts: West’s influence shows up in drafts of Wise Blood, as “Shrike,” the newspaper editor in Miss Lonelyhearts, is used as the name for two different characters, and remains, as an allusion, in Sabbath’s correspondence with a newspaper advice columnist; Elizabeth Hardwick described West’s novels as “morality plays . . . classified as comedies” and “funny as a crutch.” Elizabeth Hardwick, “Funny as a Crutch,” New York Review of Books (November 6, 2003): 24. O’Connor later claimed that West was an influence “stylistically” in her early twenties, but she was “disappointed” upon rereading him: “Miss Lonely Hearts seemed a sentimental Christ figure which is a contradiction in terms.” FOC to Marcus Smith, July 12, 1976, CW, 1215.
181 “They were our movies”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xiv.
181 “gewgaws”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Patterns of Friendship,” 417.
181 “my adopted kin”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald, December 26, 1954, CW, 927.
181 “master of the house”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Rooms with a View,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 10 (1981): 13.
181–182 “Well I can’t sustain”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Panel Discussion,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 6 (1977): 78.
182 “due to criticism”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
182 “The novel is going”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, October 26, 1949, HB, 17.
182 “unethical”: Ibid.
182 “malicious”: FOC to Mavis McIntosh, October 31, 1949, CW, 884.
182 “a writer on my own”: Alice Alexander, “The Memory of Milledgeville’s Flannery O’Connor Is Still Green,” Atlanta Journal, March 28, 1979.
182 “outside”: FOC to Mary Virginia Harrison, October 15, 1949, GCSU.
182 “Marriages are always a shock”: FOC to Betty Boyd, November 17, 1949, HB, 19.
182 “She did husband”: Beth Dawkins Bassett, “Converging Lives,” Emory Magazine 58, no. 4 (April 1982): 19.
182 “We spent an hour”: Robert Lowell to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d., December 1949], Letters, 150–51.
183 “I won’t see you”: FOC to Elizabeth Hardwick and Robert Lowell, [n.d.], CW, 886.
183 “having a kidney”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, December 30, 1949, GCSU.
183 “She wrote to me”: Wray, “Flannery O’Connor on the West Side,” 76.
183 “radical cure”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, February 13, 1950, CW, 887.
183 “We worked on at our jobs”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xvi.
183 “I noted what good spirits”: Giroux, “Introduction,” Complete Stories, xi.
184 “She was now one of”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xvi.
184 “typing arms”: Ibid.
184 “I am wondering”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 5, 1960, CW, 1123–24.
184 “ran from one end”: FOC to Maryat Lee, October 9, 1962, HB, 495.
185 “smiling perhaps”: “Editor’s Note,” HB, 21.
185 “a shriveled old”: Ibid., 22.
185 “a state of complete”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
CHAPTER SIX: THE LIFE YOU SAVE
189 “any story I reveal”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 24, 1955, CW, 957.
189 “I know for a fact”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises Must Converge (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1965) xiv. O’Connor assured him that the description was based on a visit to the Manhattan “cold-water flat” of her