作者介紹
Flannery O'Connor芙蘭納莉歐康納生於美國喬治亞州的薩凡納，作品具強烈地方色彩，1952年出版首部小說The Wise Blood(智慧之血)。一生幾乎都在家鄉的農場度過，讓歐康納對南方風土地貌的刻畫極其精細寫實。作品詭譎尖銳，常以戲謔筆觸討論信仰及道德，為南方文學代表作家。
Flannery O'Connor was born in Savannah, Georgia, in 1925. When she died at the age of thirty-nine, America lost one of its most gifted writers at the height of her powers. O’Connor wrote two novels, Wise Blood (1952) and The Violent Bear It Away (1960), and two story collections, A Good Man Is Hard to Find (1955) and Everything That Rises Must Converge (1964). Her Complete Stories, published posthumously in 1972, won the National Book Award that year, and in a 2009 online poll it was voted as the best book to have won the award in the contest’s 60-year history. Her essays were published in Mystery and Manners (1969) and her letters in The Habit of Being (1979). In 1988 the Library of America published her Collected Works; she was the first postwar writer to be so honored. O’Connor was educated at the Georgia State College for Women, studied writing at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop, and wrote much of Wise Blood at the Yaddo artists’ colony in upstate New York. She lived most of her adult life on her family’s ancestral farm, Andalusia, outside Milledgeville, Georgia.
Robert Giroux is the editor of two collections of Elizabeth Bishop's writing, both published by Farrar, Straus and Giroux: The Collected Prose and One Art: Letters.
Hilton Als is is the author of White Girls and My Pinup. He is a staff writer at The New Yorker and an associate professor at Columbia University's School of Arts. Als has taught at Yale University, Wesleyan, and Smith College. He lives in New York City.
