but different ones. [Nathaniel] Hawthorne's was a Calvinist creation, [Flannery] O'Connor's a Roman Catholic one. In his new biography, Brad Gooch focuses on O'Connor's deep-seated faith as the mainspring of her emotional and intellectual life. Writing on novelists of the 1950s, John Updike described O'Connor's fiction as "Christian orthodoxy eminently, provocatively represented." Her life was cut short by lupus: O'Connor died at 39 in 1964 after a 14-year battle with the same disease that killed her father when he was 45.
from Bob Hoover: The Philadelphia Inquirer: A writer who steered life toward poetry
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