Flannery_ A Life of Flannery O'Connor - Brad Gooch [200]
209 “I enjoyed it”: James H. McCown, “Remembering Flannery O’Connor,” America (September 8, 1979): 87.
209 “spotting inconsistencies”: Charles Claffy, “She Returned to Milledgeville and Then She Began Her Work,” Boston Globe (July 2, 1981): 2.
209 “I hope you won’t”: FOC to Robie Macauley, May 2, 1952, HB, 35.
210 “Autograph Party”: “Autograph Party Is Planned for Miss O’Connor,” Union-Recorder, May 8, 1952; “Flannery O’Connor to Be Honored at Library Today,” Union-Recorder, May 15, 1952; “Autograph Party Given at Library for Miss O’Connor,” Union-Recorder, May 22, 1952.
210 “Cocktails were not served”: FOC to Betty Boyd Love, postmarked May 23, 1952, HB, 36.
210 “most brave”: FOC to Miss Satterfield and the library staff, May 17, 1952, GCSU.
210 “I have rarely enjoyed”: Margaret Inman Meaders, “Flannery O’Connor: ‘Literary Witch,’” Colorado Quarterly, 10, no. 4 (Spring 1962): 380.
210 “an old dame”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Wednesday,” CW, 896.
211 “I have been told”: Mary Barbara Tate, “Flannery O’Connor at Home in Milledgeville,” Studies in Literary Imagination 20, no. 2 (1987): 34.
211 “When I was through”: Robert Lowell to Flannery O’Connor,” [n.d., late May or early June 1952], Letters, 187.
211 “now goes about enraging”: Ibid., December 1953, Iowa City, Letters, 203.
211 “a Protestant saint”: FOC to Carl Hartman, March 2, 1954, CW, 919.
211 “I think she left”: Andrew Lytle to Thomas H. Carter, June 24, 1952, Thomas Carter Papers, University Library, Washington and Lee University, Lexington, Va.
212 “I still can’t read Flannel Mouth”: Robert Lowell to FOC, March 24, [1954], Letters, 226.
212 “Thank you for sending”: Quoted in Elie, The Life You Save, 501.
212 “Evalin Wow”: FOC to Robert and Sally Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Wednesday,” CW, 897.
212 “Does he suppose”: FOC to Robert Lowell, May 2, 1952, CW, 896.
212 “writes of an insane”: Isaac Rosenfeld, “To Win by Default,” New Republic, 127 no. 1 (July 7, 1952): 19–20.
212 “in a pallid light”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 899.
213 “But Rosenfeld”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xviii.
213 “looking ravaged”: Ibid., xix.
213 “climbed in the car”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, September 10, 1952, CW, 900.
214 “after being helpful”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xix.
214 “allergic”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 899.
214 “slum child”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xix.
214 “had to stay”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 898.
214 “pure Georgia rhetoric”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xix.
215 “Flannery, you don’t have”: The account is taken from Christopher O’Hare’s interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
216 “You always overdo!” Rosemary Magee and Emily Wright, “The Good Guide: A Final Conversation with Sally Fitzgerald,” Flannery O’Connor Review 3 (2005): 22.
216 “She was a very nice-looking”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” July 1952, HB, 38.
216 “It was a great boon”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 899.
217 “a kind of Guggenheim”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald, [n.d.], Summer 1952, HB, 40.
217 “I know now that it is”: FOC to Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Tuesday,” CW, 899.
217 “over the phone”: FOC to Sally Fitzgerald, [n.d.] Summer 1952, HB, 40.
218 “a gret place”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d., Summer 1952], “Sunday,” HB, 40.
218 “I’m going to order”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,” CW, 833.
219 “my one-cylander”: FOC to John Hawkes, July 27, 1958, CW, 1075: “I braved the Faulkner, without tragic results. Probably the real reason I don’t read him is because he makes me feel that with my one-cylander syntax I should quit writing and raise chickens altogether.”
220 “Someone said you had something”: Robert Lowell to Flannery O’Connor, [n.d.] December 1953, Letters, 203.
220 “I did have one in Harper’s”: FOC to Robert Lowell, January 1, [1954], HB, 65.
220 Shiftlet: “Harry Shiftlet Now with Airborne