Description: Flannery and Regina tells the story of Flannery O'Connor and her mother, Regina, after Flannery's lupus diagnosis forced her to move back to Milledgeville, Georgia. Just as her career was beginning to take off, the disease that killed her father confined her to the family farm, Andalusia.
Brief description: CAROL LOEB SHLOSS is a former acting professor of English and Irish literature at Stanford University. Widely known for her work on modernist writers, her books include Lucia Joyce: To Dance in the Wake, a Pulitzer Prize nominee and finalist for the National Book Critics Circle Award; Let the Wind Speak: Mary de Rachewiltz and Ezra Pound; Flannery O'Connor's Dark Comedies: The Limits of Inference; and two books on literature and photography. Since writing her seminal book on Flannery O'Connor in 1980, she has published essays and reviews in Flannery O'Connor Review and many other journals. She currently resides in Philadelphia.
Review Quotes: Flannery and Regina is a significant contribution to Flannery O'Connor studies, and it provides important new critical and historical contexts for Flannery O'Connor's writing. Carol Shloss's painstaking archival research draws on correspondence, legal records, financial records, and other records from Andalusia Farm and other collections to present an important story of the lives of author Flannery O'Connor and her mother Regina.--Monica Carol Miller "author of Dear Regina: Flannery O'Connor's Letters from Iowa"