Flannery (62 page)

313
“I must say I attribute”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 3, 1959,
CW,
1088.

313
“had her say”: FOC to Betty Hester, January 31, 1959,
HB,
317.

313
“persuadeth me”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, [n.d., “Friday,” February 1959],
CC,
82.

313
“Miss Mary”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 15, 1959, Emory.

313
“I met her at two a.m.”: Richard Stern, “Flannery O’Connor: A Remembrance and Some Letters,”
Shenandoah
16, no. 2 (Winter 1965): 6.

314
“confer with the young ladies”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, January 14, 1959,
HB,
316.

314
“Miss O’Connor, what are”: FOC to Elizabeth Bishop, April 9, 1959,
CW,
1093.

314
“Do they think”: Stern, “Flannery O’Connor,” 6.

314
“all bad but two”: FOC to Louise Abbot, March 30, 1959,
CW,
1091.

314
“full of wry strength”: Stern, “Flannery O’Connor,” 6.

314
“I hope you are accustoming”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, March 24, 1959,
CW,
1090.

314
“The house is subject to termite”: FOC to Thomas Stritch, March 28, 1959,
CW,
1091.

314
“doodles, exclamation points”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 28, 1959,
CW,
1088.

315
“enthusiastic”: FOC to Sally and Robert Fitzgerald, February 15, 1959,
HB,
318.

315
“obscure”: Brainard Cheney to FOC, [n.d., late July? 1959],
CC,
91.

315
“too much a parody”: FOC to Catharine Carver, April 18, 1959,
CW,
1094.

315
“When the grim reaper”: Ibid., March 27, 1959,
CW,
1090.

315
“work on Tarwater”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 16, 1959,
CW,
1096.

315
“an elderly French gentleman”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 29, 1959,
HB,
325.

315
“
monde tragicomique
”: Melvin J. Friedman, “Flannery O’Connor in France: An Interim Report,”
Critical Essays on Flannery O’Connor,
edited by Melvin J. Friedman and Beverly Lyon Clark (Boston: G. K. Hall, 1985), 132.

315
“sort of uptight”: Jean Cash,
Flannery O’Connor: A Life
(Knoxville: University of Tennessee Press, 2002), 280.

316
“Whoever invented”: FOC to Maryat Lee, April 25, 1959,
CW,
1095.

316
“I found her witty”: Robert Penn Warren,
Esprit: Journal of Thought and Opinion
8, no. 1 (University of Scranton, Scranton, Pa., Winter 1964): 49.

316
“all my famous authors”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.

316
“When I read Flannery”: Thomas Merton, “Flannery O’Connor,”
Jubilee
12, no. 7 (November 1964): 52.

316
“The aura of aloneness”: Robert Giroux, “Introduction,”
The Complete Stories
(New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1971): xiii.

316
“The car was going”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.

317
“Her life is what you”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, February 24, 1960,
Words in the Air: The Complete Correspondence Between Elizabeth Bishop and Robert Lowell,
edited by Thomas Traviso with Saskia Hamilton (New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 2008), 312. In this letter, Lowell expresses disappointment that their nomination of O’Connor for membership in the American Academy of Arts and Letters was unsuccessful that year. Among those admitted were Richard Eberhart, Harry Levin, and Willem de Kooning.

317
“I sit all day”: FOC to Maryat Lee, July 5, 1959,
HB,
339.

317
“Does it have symbolisms”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 25, 1959,
CW,
1101–102.

318
“the best thing I’ve read”: FOC to Caroline Gordon, May 10, 1959,
HB,
332.

318
“I was not ABOUT”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 31, 1959, Emory.

318
“this is the best stage”: FOC to Maryat Lee, July 5, 1959,
HB,
339.

318
“The Comforts of Home”: The story was published in
Kenyon Review
22, Fall 1960, and was the fifth story in
Everything That Rises Must Converge.

318–319
“It would be fashionable”: FOC to Betty Hester, August 9, 1955,
CW,
946.

319
“I was pretty disappointed”: FOC to Robie Macauley, January 2, 1961, GCSU.

319
“unaware of the strangely sexual”: Betty Hester to Greg Johnson, November 20 [1996], private collection.

319
“revulsion at the frankly sexual”: Spivey,
Flannery O’Connor,
31.

319
“pious slop”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 30, 1960,
HB,
394.

319
“Mr. Truman Capote”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 8, 1955,
CW,
973.

319
“As for lesbianism”: FOC to Beverly Brunson, September 13, 1954,
CW,
925.

320
“The School of Southern Degeneracy”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 19, 1959,
HB,
363.

320
“literary white witch”: Orville Prescott,
New York Times
(February 24, 1960).

320
“strong medicine”: Donald Davidson, “A Prophet Went Forth,”
New York Times Book Review
(February 28, 1960): 4.

320
“Southern Gothic”: Granville Hicks, “Southern Gothic with a Vengeance,”
Saturday Review
(February 27, 1960): 18.

320
“a retiring, bookish”: “God-Intoxicated Hillbillies,”
Time
(February 29, 1960): 118.

320
“having a dirty hand”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, February 26, 1960,
CC,
108.

320
“My lupus has no business”: FOC to Maryat Lee, March 5, 1960,
HB,
380.

320
“Perhaps I have created”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, February 28, 1960,
HB,
377.

321
“hard intelligence”: Joan Didion,
National Review
8, no. 15 (April 9, 1960): 240.

321
“a young writer”:
Vogue,
April 1, 1960.

321
“I received Flannery’s new book”: Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, February 15, 1960,
Words in the Air,
309.

321
“I hadn’t connected ‘Bishop’”: Robert Lowell to Elizabeth Bishop, February 24, 1960, ibid., 312.

321
“Yes, the Flannery book”: Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, April 22, 1960, ibid., 315.

321
“wave of tenderness”: Maryat Lee, unpublished memoir, private collection.

322
“omnivorous reader”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.

323
“My editor from Farrer”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, May 25, 1959,
CW,
1097.

323
“I said I met the Father”: Christopher O’Hare interview with Robert Giroux.

323
“a new synthesis”: FOC to Betty Hester, November 22, 1958,
CW,
1082.

323–324
“Only crisis theologians”: Ibid., November 8, 1958,
CW,
1078.

324
“greatest of the Protestant”: Ibid., 1082.

324
“churchy”: FOC, review of
Letters from Baron Friedrich von Hügel to a Niece,
edited by Gwendolen Greene,
Bulletin,
June 23, 1956;
PG,
21.

324
“total absence”: FOC, review of
The Rosary of Our Lady,
by Romano Guardini,
Bulletin,
April 28, 1955;
PG,
16.

324
“theology of creativity”: FOC, review of
The Image Industries,
by William Lynch, S.J.,
Bulletin,
August 8, 1959;
PG,
75.

324
Painting and Reality:
FOC, review of
Painting and Reality,
by Etienne Gilson,
Bulletin,
May 3, 1958;
PG,
56–57.

324
“Tay-ahr”: FOC, review of
The Phenomenon of Man,
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
Bulletin,
February 20, 1960;
PG,
86–88.

325
“lucky find”: FOC to Betty Hester, December 25, 1959,
HB,
367.

325
“giving a new face”: FOC, review of
The Divine Milieu,
by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin,
Bulletin,
February 4, 1961;
PG,
108.

325
“Pere Teilhard talks”: FOC to Janet McKane, February 25, 1963,
CW,
1179.

326
“great mystic”: FOC to Betty Hester, February 4, 1961,
CW,
1144.

326
“Jesuit mind”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, November 30, 1959,
CW,
1114.

326
“parallels between Jung”: FOC to Dr. T. R. Spivey, March 16, 1960,
HB,
383.

326
“his work is”: Brainard Cheney to FOC, October 7, 1962,
CC,
157.

326
American Scholar
: “Outstanding Books, 1931–1961,”
American Scholar
30, no. 4 (Autumn 1961): 618.

326
“too straitjacket”: Robert Giroux, in discussion with the author, November 13, 2003.

326
“I am here to bless”: John Kobler, “The Priest Who Haunts the Catholic World,”
Saturday Evening Post
236 (October 12, 1963): 45.

326
“regrettable”: Ibid.

326
“depressing at first”: FOC to Roslyn Barnes, August 4, 1962,
CW,
1171.

326
“canonized yet”: FOC to Brainard Cheney, October 31, 1963,
CC,
181.

326
“If they are good”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, March 21, 1964,
CW,
1204.

327
“Looka there”: De Vene Harrold, unpublished memoir, 1, “FOC Collection,” GCSU.

327
“He was finicky”: A Conyers monk, in discussion with the author, August 8, 2004.

327
“giggler”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 14, 1960, Emory.

328
“What interests me”: FOC to Betty Hester, April 30, 1960,
HB,
394.

328
“murder stories”: FOC to Robert Giroux, September 29, 1960,
CW,
1133.

328
“plainly grotesque”: FOC, “Introduction to a Memoir of Mary Ann,”
CW,
824.

328
“Hawthorne said he didn’t write”: FOC to William Sessions, September 13, 1960,
CW,
1131.

329
“Lately I have had a recurrent”: FOC, “The King of the Birds,”
CW,
842.

329
“Some Thoughts on the Catholic Novelist”: The talk was published as “The Role of the Catholic Novelist,”
Greyfriar
7 (1964): 9.

329
“met no duds”: FOC to Betty Hester, October 27, 1960,
HB,
414.

329
“I sound pretty much like”: FOC to John Hawkes, October 9, 1960,
CW,
1134.

330
“When Hawthorne said”: FOC, “Some Aspects of the Grotesque in Southern Fiction,”
CW,
818.

330
“green with envy”: Elizabeth Bishop to Robert Lowell, May 5, 1959,
Words in the Air,
300.

330
“strenuous”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 8, 1960,
CW,
1135.

330
“I helped Regina in the kitchen”: De Vene Harrold, unpublished memoir, 3.

330
“I call that really having”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 8, 1960,
CW,
1135.

330
“She and the Sisters”: FOC, “A Memoir of Mary Ann,”
CW,
828.

331
“Tout Ce Qui Monte Converge”:
Giroux, “Introduction,”
Collected Stories,
xv.

331
“story called ‘Everything’”: FOC to Roslyn Barnes, March 29, 1961,
HB,
438.

332
“King Kong”: FOC to Betty Hester, July 23, 1960,
CW,
1130.

332
“the secularist-Baptist”: FOC to Maryat Lee, September 23, 1960, GCSU.

332
“All the rich widows”: FOC to Cecil Dawkins, November 8, 1960,
CW,
1135.

332
Gossetts: Ralph C. Wood,
Flannery O’Connor and the Christ-Haunted South
(Grand Rapids, Mich.: William B. Eerdmans Publishing, 2004), 117.

332
Sessions has recalled a Thanksgiving: Ibid., 113.

333
“All my thoughts”: FOC to Betty Hester, May 4, 1957,
HB,
218.

333
“a young college instructor”: John Howard Griffin,
Black Like Me
(New York: Signet Books, 1962), 134.

333
“If I had been one of them white”: FOC to Maryat Lee, May 21, 1964,
CW,
1208.

333
“not in blackface”: FOC to Father James H. McCown, October 28, 1960,
HB,
414.

334
“I would call Flannery”: A Conyers monk, in discussion with the author, August 8, 2004.