In 1954, Flannery O’Connor wrote her first novel, Wise Blood, in a room above the Fitzgerald family garage. Robert and Sally Fitzgerald had met the famous Southern writer, bonded over their shared Catholicism and artistic temperaments, recognized O’Connor’s need to get out of her mother’s suffocating presence while writing her book, and invited her to s…
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