The world today has mysterious ways of working its magic. The world was blessed when Flannery O'Connor was born, in Savannah, Georgia on March 25, 1925. Flannery O'Connor was the only child of Edward Francis O'Connor and Regina Cline O'Connor. After graduation from Georgia State College for Women in Milledgeville in 1945, she went to Iowa City and became a graduate student in the Writers' Workshop at the State University of Iowa. O'Connor wrote a few stories that …showed first 75 words of 1796 total…

…showed last 75 words of 1796 total…the mystery to be learned that's put forth by Flannery herself" (Cunningham). " The fiction writer represents mystery through manners, grace, and through nature," (Cunningham) and this is exactly what Flannery O'Connor did. She represented all these qualities and more within her writing and the way she lived her life. Flannery O'Connor had a magic touch with a paper and a pen, and when she put her tools to work, she could make any story shine.