Resource Guide:
Flannery O’Connor

The following websites are librarian-evaluated to provide trustworthy information for your topic. They include digitized collections connected to your topic.

• Flannery O'Connor talks about and reads "Southern Grotesque"
• Flannery O'Connor reads "A good man is hard to find"
• Flannery O'Connor at the Georgia Historical Society
• The Flannery O'Connor Repository
• PBS Religion and Ethics Newsweekly on Flannery O'Connor

Subject headings are selected terms to represent a topic. Searching subject headings in the library catalog will bring the most complete list of results. Below are some example subject headings. More subject headings can be located in the red books at the reference desk.

• American literature--20th century--History and criticism.
• American literature--Catholic authors
• American literature--Georgia.
• American literature--Irish American authors--History and criticism.

The following databases are specifically useful for your topic. You can search them individually on the databases page.

• Academic Search Complete
• Dictionary of Literary Biography
• Humanities International Complete
• JSTOR
• Literature Resources from Gale
• MasterFILE Premier
• Women’s Studies International

The following journals supply articles to the library’s databases. You can see if a specific journal supplies articles to our databases by searching the journal title on the library journal page.

• Flannery O'Connor Review
• The news-letter of the Society for the Study of Southern Literature
• The Dead Mule School of Southern Literature
• The Southern Review
• The Southern Literary Journal
• Southern Literary Messenger
• Louisiana Literature
• Studies in 20th and 21st Century Literature
• Southern Quarterly
• American Literature
• Modern Fiction Studies

Below are some selected materials in the library with their shelving locations. Browsing in the listed areas of the library will help you find more materials for your topic.