More than just a bibliography, this catalog of Flannery O'Connor's library is an invitation to better understand the ideas, passions, and prejudices of the extraordinarily observant and creative author of Wise Blood and The Violent Bear It Away. Noting all the passages O'Connor marked in her books, transcribing many of the passages, and showing all references to specific books in O'Connor's published letters and book reviews, Arthur F. Kinney gives readers the opportunity to hear the intellectual dialogue between O'Connor and the authors of the books in her library?????authors as diverse as Carl Jung, Henry James, and Nathaniel Hawthorne.

ARTHUR F. KINNEY was a professor of English at the University of Massachusetts and is the author of Faulkner's Narrative Poetics and the coeditor of Bear, Man and God.