Literary Landmarks: Flannery O'Connor Farm
In late 1950 Flannery O’Connor began to exhibit symptoms of lupus, the disease that had killed her father. Her condition forced Flannery to return to her hometown, Milledgeville, Georgia. in 1951, but instead of returning to the family home in town, Flannery and her mother moved to the family farm, Andalusia, where Flannery lived and worked for thirteen years, until her death in 1964.
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