In Flannery: A Life of Flannery O'Connor (Little, Brown), we take a mini-tour of Flannery O'Connor's life and writing. Biographer Brad Gooch describes his difficulties in gaining access to the author's inner life. Since his last biography was of socially flamboyant poet Frank O'Hara, who would believe that Gooch could handle the religious, retreating, bird-lover Flannery O'Connor.
Brad Gooch: Flannery
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