Flannery O'Connor is considered one of America's greatest fiction
writers. The immensely talented Robert Giroux, editor-in-chief of
Harcourt, Brace & Company and later of Farrar, Straus; Giroux,
was her devoted friend and admirer. He edited her three books
published during her lifetime, plus Everything that Rises Must
Converge, which she completed just before she died in 1964 at the
age of thirty-nine, the posthumous The Complete Stories of Flannery
O'Connor, and the subsequent award-winning collection of her
letters titled The Habit of Being. When poet Robert Lowell first
introduced O'Connor to Giroux in March 1949, she could not have
imagined the impact that meeting would have on her life or on the
landscape of postwar American literature. Flannery O'Connor and
Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership sheds new light on an area
of Flannery O'Connor's life-her relationship with her editors-that
has not been well documented or narrated by critics and
biographers. Impressively researched and rich in biographical
details, this book chronicles Giroux's and O'Connor's personal and
professional relationship, not omitting their circle of friends and
fellow writers, including Robert Lowell, Caroline Gordon, Sally and
Robert Fitzgerald, Allen Tate, Thomas Merton, and Robert Penn
Warren. As Patrick Samway explains, Giroux guided O'Connor to
become an internationally acclaimed writer of fiction and
nonfiction, especially during the years when she suffered from
lupus at her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, a disease that
eventually proved fatal. Excerpts from their correspondence, some
of which are published here for the first time, reveal how much of
Giroux's work as editor was accomplished through his letters to
Milledgeville. They are gracious, discerning, and appreciative,
just when they needed to be. In Father Samway's portrait of
O'Connor as an extraordinarily dedicated writer and businesswoman,
she emerges as savvy, pragmatic, focused, and determined. This
engrossing account of O'Connor's publishing history will interest,
in addition to O'Connor's fans, all readers and students of
American literature.
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