(Savannah, 1925 - Milledgeville, 1964) American writer considered one of the best cultivators of the story in the second half of the twentieth century. In his texts he investigates, from a Christian perspective, the spiritual misery of the human being and his rejection of eternal salvation. Suffering since 1951 of a serious blood disease, which affected the bones of her legs, and forced her to walk on crutches, the unfortunate writer spent the last thirteen years of her life on the family farm in Milledgeville, dedicated to the creation literary and the breeding of peacocks. It is considered a paradigmatic member of the generation of great southern writers. In fact, much of contemporary American criticism has pointed out the concomitants between the life and work of Flannery O'Connor and William Faulkner himself. In 1972 he received the National Book Award for all his stories.