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201 “autobiographical”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Rooms with a View,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 10 (1981): 16.
201 “freaks”: Caroline Gordon to FOC, quoted in “A Master Class,” 831: “Robert Fitzgerald reported to me something that you said that interested me very much, that your first novel was about freaks, but that your next book would be about folks.”
201 “I have twenty-one”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, September 20, 1951, CW, 890.
201 “He was sort of like”: Alfred Matysiak, in discussion with the author, July 27, 2004.
201 “I have just discovered”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 891.
202 “She always tells us”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, December 15, 1953, CC, 10–11.
202 “She says she ain’t”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald,” [n.d. “Friday,” Summer 1953], HB, 62.
202 “gleaned many”: Carter W. Martin, “Introduction,” The Presence of Grace and Other Book Reviews by Flannery O’Connor (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1983), 3.
202 “Want to Win”: Union-Recorder, September 14, 1950.
202 “dashing”: “Confederate Vet to See Wife Get Degree at GSCW,” Union-Recorder, August 23, 1951; August 30, 1951.
203 “The local High Dining”: FOC to Maryat Lee, November 10, 1957, GCSU.
203 “It seems like the O’Connors”: Mary Jo Thompson, in discussion with the author, May 25, 2004.
203 “If it opened at twelve”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Frances Florencourt.
203 “Flannery mostly ate”: Dorrie Neligan, in discussion with the author, June 3, 2004.
203Wise Blood: The dedication read, simply, “For Regina.”
204 “very pretty”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Wednesday,” CW, 895.
204 “distressed”: FOC to Helen Greene, May 23, 1952, CW, 897.
205 “One reason I like”: Betsy Lochridge, “An Afternoon with Flannery O’Connor,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine (November 1, 1959): 40.
205 “he was a mystic”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 10, 1955, CW, 968.
206 “that man owes a lot”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Saturday,” CW, 892.
206 “I can tell you”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.
206 “I was disappointed”: Robert Giroux, “Introduction,” FOC, The Complete Stories (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971), xii.
206 “odd”: Milton S. Byam, Library Journal 77 (May 15, 1952): 894; Kirkus Reviews likewise faulted the novel’s “Capoted cosmos”: “A grotesque for the more zealous avantgardists; for others, a deep anaesthesia.” Kirkus Reviews 19, no. 9 (May 1, 1952): 252.
206 “a writer of power”: William Goyen, “Unending Vengeance,” New York Times Book Review (May 18, 1952): 4.
206 “arty”: “Southern Dissonance,” Time (June 9, 1952): 108, 110.
206 “if the struggle”: The New Yorker (June 14, 1952): 106.
206 “sheer monotony”: Oliver LaFarge, “Manic Gloom,” Saturday Review 35, no. 21 (May 24, 1952): 22.
206 “I am steeling”: FOC to Robert Giroux, May 24, 1952, HB, 37.
207 “Flannery O’Connor, in her first”: Sylvia Stallings, “Young Writer with a Bizarre Tale to Tell,” New York Herald Tribune Book Review (May 18, 1952): 3.
207 “ancestral mansion”: “Frustrated Preacher,” Newsweek (May 19, 1952): 114.
207 “a remarkably accomplished”: John W. Simons, “A Case of Possession,” Commonweal 56, no. 12 (June 27, 1952): 297.
207 “My mother said she”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald,” [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 891.
207 “My current literary”: Ibid., [n.d.] “Wednesday,” CW, 895.
208 “Mrs. Semmes went to bed”: Patricia Persse, “Armstrong State College Panel on O’Connor,” Savannah, Ga., May 1989.
208 “Wherever did she learn”: Hugh Brown, “Savannah Landmark,” Flannery O’Connor Bulletin 18 (1989): 43.
208 “I can see her right now”: Charlotte Conn Ferris, in discussion with the author, November 4, 2003.
208 “I wish you could”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xix.
208 “I also had an 83-year-old”: FOC to John Lynch, February 19, 1956, HB, 138.
208 “When I read her first novel”: William Schemmel, “Southern Comfort,” Travel-Holiday (June 1988): 72.
208–209 “I read Wise Blood”: Mary More Jones,