Read more [Photograph of Brainard Cheney with fellow writers at Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference] Rear: Eudora Welty, John Ciardi, Brainard Cheney, Edna... Read more
Read more [“Do you think teachers are necessary?” linocut print, printed in Flannery O’Connor: The Cartoons] In this cartoon, which Flannery O’Connor made for her... Read more
Read more Everything That Rises Must Converge Flannery O’Connor finished the final two stories for... Read more
Read more [Flannery O’Connor’s Webster typewriter ribbon] Flannery O’Connor had several typewriters over the course... Read more
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Read more [Photograph of Flannery O’Connor feeding a Muscovy duck at Andalusia Farm] When Flannery O’Connor returned home from her visit to... Read more
Read more [Program from 1959 Vanderbilt Literary Symposium] In the spring of 1959, Vanderbilt English professor Walter... Read more
Read more [Unpublished shooting script for Horton Foote’s PBS adaptation of Flannery O’Connor’s story “The Displaced Person,” with actress Irene Worth’s Georgia accent pronunciation guide] Horton Foote’s adaptation of “The Displaced... Read more
Read more [Audio reel from literary symposium featuring Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”] The audio of the Vanderbilt Literary Symposium meetings was... Read more
Read more [Letter from Caroline Gordon to Flannery O’Connor] In this letter, Caroline Gordon writes to Flannery... Read more
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Read more [Photograph of Vanderbilt University’s Alumni Hall, where Flannery O’Connor read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”] Flannery O’Connor read her story “A Good Man Is... Read more
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Read more [Letter from Flannery O’Connor to Brainard Cheney about Wise Blood review] Many of the reviews of Wise Blood were negative or... Read more
Read more [Letter from Flannery O’Connor to Andrew Lytle] Although Flannery O’Connor continued to send Caroline... Read more
Read more [“The Well,” a woodcut illustration from Caroline Gordon’s review of A Good Man Is Hard to Find in The New York Times Book Review] Caroline Gordon told Andrew Lytle that she... Read more
Read more Roy Blount’s Book of Southern Humor Roy Blount, Jr., enrolled at Vanderbilt a few months after... Read more
Read more [“No Moonlight and Magnolias,” a feature on Flannery O’Connor from The Tennessean] Ralph Morrissey used one of the photographs he took of Flannery... Read more
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Read more [Typescript draft of “The Displaced Person” with handwritten edits on last paragraph] Flannery O’Connor described this draft of “The... Read more
Read more [Letter from Caroline Gordon to Brainard and Frances Cheney] In this letter to Brainard and Frances Cheney, which included... Read more
Read more [Letter from Caroline Gordon to Andrew Lytle] In this letter to Andrew Lytle, Caroline Gordon writes of her... Read more
Read more [Fragment of a five-tined cultivator hoe from Andalusia Farm] Tools like this one are useful for removing weeds and preparing... Read more
Read more [Photograph of Flannery O’Connor at Cheney residence] Ralph Morrissey, who managed the book review page of the... Read more
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![[Program from 1959 Vanderbilt Literary Symposium]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case2-item5-program_01-1500-e1753900807323-640x480.jpg)
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![[Audio reel from literary symposium featuring Flannery O’Connor reading “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case2-item7-reeltoreel-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Letter from Caroline Gordon to Flannery O’Connor]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case3-item2-gordonfoc_01-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Box of Flannery O’Connor’s Dictacraft typewriter paper]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case1-item5-typewriterpaper-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Photograph of Vanderbilt University’s Alumni Hall, where Flannery O’Connor read “A Good Man Is Hard to Find”]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case2-item6-alumnihall-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Wildcat film poster, signed by Ethan Hawke]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case4-above-wildcat-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Photograph of Caroline Gordon]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case3-item3-photoofcg-1500-640x480.jpg)
![[Letter from Flannery O’Connor to Brainard Cheney about Wise Blood review]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case2-item4-flannerythanks-1500-640x480.jpg)
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![[“The Well,” a woodcut illustration from Caroline Gordon’s review of A Good Man Is Hard to Find in The New York Times Book Review]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case3-item8-wellprint-1500-640x480.jpg)
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![[Letter from Caroline Gordon to Brainard and Frances Cheney]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case4-item1-gordonletter_03-640x480.jpg)
![[Letter from Caroline Gordon to Andrew Lytle]](https://exhibitions.library.vanderbilt.edu/wp-content/uploads/sites/113/2025/07/case3-item7-gordonlytleletter-1500-640x480.jpg)
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