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Flannery O'Connor's baby crib, located in her parents' upstairs bedroom, overlooks the Cathedral Basilica of St. John the Baptist, where the family attended Catholic mass.
Credit: Benjamin Payne / GPB News
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See inside the childhood home of Flannery O'Connor, born 100 years ago in Savannah
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LISTEN: In this audio postcard, Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum executive director Janie Bragg gives a historical tour of the downtown Savannah row house where O'Connor grew up.
Tuesday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Flannery O'Connor, born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Ga., where she spent her first 13 years — one-third of the author's short but prolific life.
Known for her dark short stories that explored complicated questions of faith and morality in the rural South, O'Connor became one of the most acclaimed writers of her time, pioneering the Southern Gothic style of literature before her death in 1964.
Although often associated with Milledgeville, Ga., where she spent most of her adult life on her family's farm known as Andalusia, it was O'Connor's upbringing in Savannah as an only child during the Great Depression that provided her early foundation, helping to shape her into the eccentric creative she'd one day become.
To learn more, GPB Savannah reporter Benjamin Payne tagged along on a historical tour of her childhood home, led by Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Museum Foundation's executive director, Janie Bragg. Listen to curated excerpts from her tour in the audio postcard above.
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