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260 “Galley Proof is an attempt”: Harvey Breit, “Galley Proof: A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” in Con, 5–6.
260 “I don’t know what she”: FOC to Fred Darsey, May 25, 1955, Emory.
260 “Well I thought”: Breit “Galley Proof,” Con, 6.
260 “quietly”: Harvey Breit, “In and Out of Books,” New York Times Book Review (June 12, 1955): 8.
260 “I don’t see much of it”: Breit, “Galley Proof,” 6.
260 “When you’re a Southerner”: Ibid., 8.
261 “very tired”: FOC to Fred Darsey, June 8, 1955, Emory.
261 “nursemaid”: Ibid., May 25, 1955.
261 “did all the work”: FOC to Catharine Carver, April 2, 1955, HB, 76.
261 “The atmosphere at Harcourt Brace”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
262 “I like it fine”: FOC to Catharine Carver, May 8, 1955, HB, 79.
262 “I think it will do justice”: FOC to Robert Giroux, January 22, 1955, HB, 75.
262 “I had interviews”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
262 “melodramatic”: Rebekah Poller, memoir, GCSU.
262 “I thought I could do”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, June 29, 1955, HB, 88.
263 “When you have a friend”: FOC to Fred Darsey, April 11, 1955, Emory.
263 “I just love to sit”: Ibid., May 25, 1955.
263 “There was a lot of his stuff”: FOC to Betty Hester, March 29, 1956, CW, 990.
263 “Dear old Van Wyke”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
263 “It was interesting to see the guffaws”: Caroline Gordon to Frances Cheney, [n.d.]. Quoted in Ann Waldron, Close Connections: Caroline Gordon and the Southern Renaissance (New York: G. P. Putnam’s Sons, 1987), 322.
264 “a horror story”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
264 “alien to the American”: Caroline Gordon to Andrew and Eleanor Lytle, June 15, 1955. Quoted in Waldron, Close Connections, 322.
264 “Malcolm was very polite”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
264 “about the best book”: Caroline Gordon to Andrew and Eleanor Lytle, June 15, 1955. Quoted in Waldron, Close Connections, 321.
264 “She felt left out”: Caroline Gordon to Allen Tate, St. Stephen’s Day, 1955. Quoted in Waldron, Close Connections, 322.
264 “Dear Ferocious”: FOC to Catharine Carver, June 9, 1955, GCSU.
264 “I think I am about as ferocious”: FOC to Fred Darsey, June 8, 1955, Emory.
264 “I am fast getting a reputation”: FOC to Erik Langkjaer, May 23, 1955, CW, 936.
265 “to a high rank”: Orville Prescott, New York Times, June 10, 1955.
265 “the artful brevity”: Caroline Gordon, “With a Glitter of Evil,” New York Times Book Review (June 12, 1955): 5.
265 “there is brutality”: The New Yorker (June 18, 1955): 93.
265 “Did you see the nice”: FOC to Catharine Carver, June 27, 1955, HB, 88.
265 “was terrible, nearly gave me”: FOC to Ben Griffith, July 9, 1955, CW, 941.
265 “highly unladylike”: “Such Nice People,” Time (June 6, 1955): 114.
266 “horrible pictures of me”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 17, 1963, HB, 534.
266 “unusual reticence”: Sylvia Stallings, New York Herald Tribune Book Review (June 5, 1955): 1.
266 “The effect, though ‘glamorous’”: Ashley Brown, Realist of Distances, 20.
266 “You should see Hazel Motes”: FOC to Frances Cheney, September 7, 1955, CC, 22.
267 “from the American South”: Times Literary Supplement (September 2, 1955): 505.
267 “This book is getting much”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, June 10, 1955, CW, 940.
267 “Doesn’t say much”: FOC to Ben Griffith, June 9, 1955, CW, 941.
267Ten North Frederick: The fiction judges for the 1956 National Book Award were Carlos Baker, John Brooks, Granville Hicks, Saunders Redding, and Mark Schorer.
267 “about God”: Sally Fitzgerald, “Flannery O’Connor: Patterns of Friendship, Patterns of Love,” Georgia Review 52, no. 3 (Fall 1998): 421.
267 “Dear Miss Hester”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 20, 1955, CW, 942.
268 “Betty was very shy”: William Sessions, “Screening and Discussion of Film Interview with Flannery O’Connor: Galley Proof,” Georgia College and State University, Milledgeville, March 30, 2006.
269 “my own work”: FOC to Betty Hester,