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220 “a triumph”: Robert Fitzgerald, “Introduction,” Everything That Rises, xx.
221Kenyon Review fiction fellowship: The Kenyon Review Fellowship in Fiction was funded by the Rockefeller Foundation. The two other 1953 fellows were Irving Howe, in Criticism; and Edwin Watkins, in poetry.
221 “The Life You Save May Be Your Own”: The story was published in Kenyon Review 15, Spring 1953; reprinted in Prize Stories 1954: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Paul Engle and Hansford Martin; and as the third story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
CHAPTER SEVEN: THE “BIBLE” SALESMAN
222 “Like all good farm folk”: FOC to Louise and Tom Gossett, April 10, 1961, HB, 438.
222 “routine is a condition”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 10, 1962, HB, 465.
222 “14th century man”: Thomas Merton, The Journals of Thomas Merton: Volume Four, 1960–1963, edited by Victor A. Kramer (San Francisco: Harper, 1997): “March 11 1961” entry, 98.
223 “hermit novelist”: FOC to Maryat Lee, June 28, 1957, CW, 1036.
223A Short Breviary: O’Connor picked up from the Fitzgeralds the practice of reading from this collection of daily hymns, offices, and prayers for the canonical hours, used especially by monks, nuns, and priests.
223 “Flannery sat in the fifth”: Elizabeth Horne, quoted in George A. Kilcourse, Jr., Flannery O’Connor’s Religious Imagination (New York: Paulist Press, 2001), 2.
223 “I like to go”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, November 29, 1953, CC, 10.
223 “Nobody lays a hand”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 3, 1963, HB, 533.
223 “She didn’t want to come back”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Margaret Florencourt Mann.
223 “My round uncle”: FOC to William Sessions, September 1, 1955, HB, 240.
224 “Get that scoundrel”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,” CW, 840.
224 “That was our weekend”: Mary Jo Thompson, in discussion with the author, May 25, 2004.
224 “the colored milker”: FOC to Brainard and Frances Neel Cheney, December 10, 1957, CC, 63.
224 “blundering around”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, January 22, 1964, CW, 1196.
224–225 “around here”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 11, 1958, CW, 1059.
225 “Wormless they did not”: FOC to Mrs. Rumsey Haynes, July 18, 1956, GSCU.
225 “set time”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, September 22, 1957, CW, 1043.
225 “But I may tear it”: Betsy Lochridge, “An Afternoon with Flannery O’Connor,” Atlanta Journal and Constitution Magazine (November 1, 1959): 40.
225 “I have a large ugly”: FOC to Betty Hester, June 1, 1956, HB, 161.
225 “rat’s nest”: Ibid., October 12, 1955, HB, 109.
225 “You Can’t Be Any Poorer Than Dead” was published in New World Writing 8, October 1955, and revised and rewritten as the opening chapter of The Violent Bear It Away. Its original title, when first submitted to NWW, was “When the Plague Beckons.”
226 “The River” was published in Sewanee Review 61, Summer 1953, and as the second story in A Good Man Is Hard to Find.
226 “Evy eye”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, [n.d.] “Thursday,” CW, 904.
226 “A Good Man Is Hard to Find” was published in The Avon Book of Modern Writing I, edited by William Phillips and Philip Rahv, 1953, including stories by Colette, Diana Trilling, Irving Howe, Isaac Rosenfeld; reprinted in 1960 in The House of Fiction, edited by Caroline Gordon and Allen Tate; and was the opening story in the collection of the same title.
226 “The Misfit”: “‘The Misfit’ Robs Office, Escapes with $150,” Atlanta Constitution (November 6, 1952): 29.
226 Bessie Smith’s: Sally Fitzgerald, “Happy Endings,” Image: A Journal of the Arts and Religion 16 (Summer 1977): 77.
226 “It was no coincidence”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Sally Fitzgerald.
227 “Catie would read”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.
227 “I remember one day”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.
227 “Both the baptizing”: Robert Lowell to FOC, [n.d.] December 1953, Letters, 203.
227 “a fresh mind”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, September 22, 1957, CW, 1043.
227 “receiving on the front”: FOC to Maryat Lee, [n.d.] “Thursday,” HB, 447.
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