Flannery O’Connor was a 20th century, who was renowned for her essays, novels and short stories that often had violent, unpredictable ends. She was a very devout Roman-Catholic, and it is evident that her religious background affected, and influenced her writings. She was diagnosed with lupus, which severely shortened her life, and left her crippled, but in her short life, living only to 39 years old, she was able to write 2 novels, and 32 short stories, as well as other essays and commentaries, and won several awards for her works. She was a fiction writer, and her aggressive writing style seems idiosyncratic, given her well known devout catholic beliefs. However, Flannery O’Connor used violence, as well as cruel, evil characters in her stories
