bitch-media: Flannery O’Connor is getting her own postage stamp! Born in Georgia, O&rsquo

bitch-media:

Flannery O’Connor is getting her own postage stamp! 

Born in Georgia, O’Connor attended the Iowa Writers’ Workshop and was always determined to be an author. She had lupus, so at age 25, she moved back to Georgia, where her mother helped take care of her. O'Connor used crutches to get around, raised peacocks, and wrote novels like Wise Blood that came to define Southern Gothic. Her work was twice nominated for the National Book Award before  she died in 1964 at just 39 years old.