Tag: Brad Gooch

Brad Gooch goes from Flannery O’Connor to Rumi, from Georgia to Tajikistan

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Brad Gooch‘s outstanding biography Flannery: A Life of Flannery O’Connor shined an appropriate spotlight on arguably the most influential Savannah-born writer of the 20th century — and one of the most important writers in the South. Many of us affiliated…

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Virginia Spencer Carr — famed literary biographer and former Armstrong prof — dies at 82

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From the obituary in the New York Times: Virginia Spencer Carr, a literary scholar whose book “The Lonely Hunter” remains the standard biography of Carson McCullers, died on April 10 at her home in Lynn, Mass. She was 82. [.…

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