{"product_id":"flannery-oconnor-a-girl-who-knew-her-own-mind-hardcover","title":"Flannery O'Connor: A Girl Who Knew Her Own Mind - Hardcover","description":"\u003cdiv\u003e\u003cp style=\"text-align: right;\"\u003e\u003ca href=\"https:\/\/reportcopyrightinfringement.com\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow\"\u003e\u003cb\u003eReport copyright infringement\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003c\/div\u003e\u003cp\u003eby \u003cb\u003eMary Carpenter\u003c\/b\u003e (Author)\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn her biography of writer Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964, née Mary Flannery), Mary Carpenter introduces young readers to one of the most renowned American authors. With an accessible style of writing, \u003ci\u003eFlannery O'Connor \u003c\/i\u003egives younger readers an overview of O'Connor's life and examines the influences, such as her family, region, and education, that helped her become one of the most respected fiction writers of the twentieth century. In a frank but age-appropriate manner, Carpenter discusses the writer's rural southern upbringing, her relationship to race, her chronic lupus, and her Catholic faith. The book will appeal to younger (nine- to ten-year-old) readers with sophisticated interests along with, and maybe more importantly, those older middle-school students who are not yet skillful readers and who thus often search with difficulty for interesting topics presented in books of a shorter length than most written for that age group. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eMary Flannery's life is inspirational. Her childhood in Savannah, Georgia, was both difficult and privileged. During the Great Depression, her father had to leave home to find work and then became very ill. Later in small-town Milledgeville, Georgia, Flannery lived with her mother and an extended family of strong women. Flannery's ability to know her mind at an early age helped her build an artistic reputation starting in high school. Through her fiction, she went on to become a role model for unconventional girls everywhere and for anyone who dreams of becoming a writer.\u003ch3\u003eAuthor Biography\u003c\/h3\u003e\u003cp\u003eMARY CARPENTER now writes a weekly health column, after a thirty-year career as a staff reporter for Time magazine and as a freelance journalist. Her articles and essays have been published in the \u003ci\u003eWashington Post\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eInternational Herald Tribune, People Magazine\u003c\/i\u003e, the \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e, and\u003ci\u003e Cosmopolitan\u003c\/i\u003e, and she is the author of two other middle-grade books: \u003ci\u003eRescued by a Cow\u003c\/i\u003e and a \u003ci\u003eSqueeze: Temple Grandin\u003c\/i\u003e and \u003ci\u003eLost and Found in the Mississippi Sound: Eli and the Dolphins of Hurricane Katrina\u003c\/i\u003e.\u003c\/p\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eNumber of Pages:\u003c\/strong\u003e 112\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eDimensions:\u003c\/strong\u003e 0.47 x 10.08 x 7.01 IN\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003eIllustrated:\u003c\/strong\u003e Yes\u003c\/div\u003e\n            \u003cdiv\u003e\n\u003cstrong\u003ePublication Date:\u003c\/strong\u003e September 01, 2022\u003c\/div\u003e\n            ","brand":"BooksCloud","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47688653308125,"sku":"9780820360508","price":20.34,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0811\/9867\/8237\/files\/piW-h-3UrH9780820360508.webp?v=1783773166","url":"https:\/\/handfulofbooks.com\/products\/flannery-oconnor-a-girl-who-knew-her-own-mind-hardcover","provider":"Handful of Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}