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336 “The topical is poison”: FOC to Betty Hester, September 1, 1963, HB, 537.
336 “Everything That Rises Must Converge”: The story was published in New World Writing 19, edited by Theodore Solotaroff, 1961; reprinted in The Best American Short Stories 1962, edited by Martha Foley and David Burnett; as the first-prize story in Prize Stories 1963: The O. Henry Awards, edited by Richard Poirier; and in First-Prize Stories, 1919–1963, edited by Harry Hansen. It is the opening story in the collection Everything That Rises Must Converge.
337 “Tarfeather”: FOC to Maryat Lee, August 22, 1960, GCSU.
337 “Raybutton”: Ibid., March 24, 1960.
337 “I’m cheered you like”: FOC to Maryat Lee, November 9, 1962, HB, 499.
337 “I feel very good”: Wood, Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South, 103.
337 “As long as he lived”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 4, 1961, CW, 1143–44.
337 “a hundred readers now”: FOC, “Catholic Novelists and Their Readers,” MM, 187; O’Connor was agreeing with a similar statement made by Arthur Koestler.
337 “love to be efficacious”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 28, 1955, CW, 948.
CHAPTER TEN: “REVELATION”
338 “chauffeur”: FOC to Ashley Brown, July 5, 1961, Princeton.
338 “upstairs junk room”: Ibid., July 10, 1961.
338 “We got along”: Ashley Brown, in discussion with the author, April 30, 2007.
338 “Few people realized”: Caroline Gordon to Robert Giroux, October 13, 1964, FSG.
339 “a nice gangster”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 1, 1953, CW, 908.
339 “Bless you, darling!”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 10, 1955, CW, 969.
339 “completely undramatic”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, July 17, 1961, HB, 445.
340 “I’m amused by the letter”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, September 28, 1960, HB, 408.
340 “She did think the structure”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 22, 1961, HB, 446.
340 “Tomorrow I am orbiting”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 26, 1962, Emory.
340–341 “rehabilitation of a country boy”: “Tender Drama of Rebellious Youth Stars Elvis, Hope and Tuesday,” Union-Recorder, July 13, 1961.
341 “The little boy”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 3, 1962, HB, 498.
341 “I’m convinced that she used”: Maryat Lee, October 4, 1975, journal entry, private collection.
341 “away with murder”: Maryat Lee to Robert Giroux, March 22, 1976, FSG.
341 “smacked the windows”: Maryat Lee, draft of a letter to Rosa Lee Walston, private collection.
341–342 “I have a very strong”: Catherine Morai, in discussion with the author, September 26, 2004.
342 “The staff is non compos mentis”: FOC to Louise and Tom Gossett, April 10, 1961, HB, 438.
342 “radiated bulls”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, September 14, 1961, CW, 1152.
342 “I could hear the dull whine”: Richard Gilman, “On Flannery O’Connor,” New York Review of Books 13, no. 3 (August 21, 1969): 26.
343 “I don’t know anything”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 28, 1961, CW, 1152.
343 “completely hollow”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 13, 1961, HB, 439.
343 “This conversion was achieved”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, January 10, 1962, HB, 459–60.
344 “compete with PLAYBOY”: FOC to Robie Macauley, January 2, 1961, GCSU.
344 “found her fiction”: Jean Cash, Flannery O’Connor: A Life (Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 87.
344 “immensely improved”: Andrew Lytle, Reference Letter for Flannery O’Connor’s 1956 Reapplication for a Fellowship, Archives of the J. S. Guggenheim Foundation.
344 “the grotesque”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 19, 1958, HB, 291.
344 “You may state without fear”: FOC to John Hawkes, July 27, 1958, CW, 1075.
344 “You suffer The Lime Twig”: John Hawkes’s The Lime Twig (New York: New Directions, 1961), excerpt of O’Connor’s book jacket praise.
344 “black”: John Hawkes, “Flannery O’Connor’s Devil,” Sewanee Review 70, no. 3 (Summer 1962): 400.
345 “In this one, I’ll admit”: FOC to John Hawkes, February 6, 1962, CW, 1157.
345 “I like the piece very much”: Ibid., April 5, 1962, CW, 1159.
345 “off-center”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, January 27, 1963, HB, 507.
345 “decided that I don’t like”: FOC to Elizabeth McKee, May 28,