Everything That Rises Must Converge - Wikipedia Everything That Rises Must Converge For other uses, see Everything That Rises Must Converge ( disambiguation ). This article needs additional citations for verification. Please help improve this article by adding citations to reliable sources. Unsourced material may be challenged and removed. ( October 2009 ) Everything That Rises Must Converge First edition cover Author Flannery O'Connor Country United States Language English Genre Short stories Publisher Farrar Straus Giroux Publication date January 1965 Media type Print ( hardback & paperback ) Pages 269 pp ISBN 0 - 374 - 15012 - 5 Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. The collection 's eponymous story derives its name from the work of Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. Of the volume 's nine stories, seven had been printed in magazines or literary journals prior to being collected. `` Judgment Day '' is a dramatically reworked version of `` The Geranium, '' which was one of O'Connor's earliest publications and appeared in her graduate thesis at the University of Iowa. `` Parker 's Back, '' the collection 's only completely new story, was a last - minute addition. Contents 1 Stories 2 `` Everything That Rises Must Converge '' 3 References 4 External links Stories `` Everything That Rises Must Converge '' `` Greenleaf '' `` A View of the Woods '' `` The Enduring Chill '' `` The Comforts of Home '' `` The Lame Shall Enter First '' `` Revelation '' `` Parker 's Back '' `` Judgement Day '' `` Everything That Rises Must Converge '' The story is told from the close third - person point of view of Julian, a recent college graduate and self - styled intellectual who lives with his mother because he can not afford his own lodgings with the pittance he earns as a typewriter salesman. The mother, whose worldview reflects the institutional racism of the mid-twentieth century American South, wishes to attend an exercise session at a nearby community center, but is wary of riding the bus by herself in light of the recent racial integration of the city 's public transportation system. Though he despises his mother 's racism, cheeriness, and intellectual aloofness, Julian resentfully agrees to escort her, if only out of a sense of duty to the woman who paid his way through college and continues to support him even afterward. His confrontational bitterness and her thoughtless prejudice bring the circumstances to a boil when they step onto the bus and join a widely disparate cast of characters, among them three African American citizens who inhabit vastly different regions of the social spectrum. The title Everything That Rises Must Converge refers to a work by the French philosopher Pierre Teilhard de Chardin titled the `` Omega Point '' : `` Remain true to yourself, but move ever upward toward greater consciousness and greater love ! At the summit you will find yourselves united with all those who, from every direction, have made the same ascent. For everything that rises must converge. '' References Jump up ^ Whitt, Margaret Earley ( 1997 - 08 - 01 ). Understanding Flannery O'Connor. University of South Carolina Press. ISBN 1 - 57003 - 225 - 4. Jump up ^ Chardin, Pierre Teilhard De ( 1969 ). Building the Earth and The Psychological Conditions of Human Unification. Avon ( Discus Edition ). p. 11. Jump up ^ Pierre Teilhard de Chardin. The Phenomenon of Man. Jump up ^ Analysis of Everything That Rises Must Converge External links Estelle Parsons reading Flannery O'Connor's story `` Everything That Rises Must Converge '' on YouTube Works by Flannery O'Connor Novels Wise Blood ( 1952 ) The Violent Bear It Away ( 1960 ) Short story collections A Good Man Is Hard to Find ( 1955 ) `` A Good Man is Hard to Find '' `` The River '' `` The Life You Save May Be Your Own '' `` A Stroke of Good Fortune '' `` A Temple of the Holy Ghost '' `` The Artificial Nigger '' `` A Circle in the Fire '' `` A Late Encounter with the Enemy '' `` Good Country People '' `` The Displaced Person '' Everything That Rises Must Converge ( 1965 ) `` Everything That Rises Must Converge '' `` Greenleaf '' `` A View of the Woods '' `` The Enduring Chill '' `` The Comforts of Home '' `` The Lame Shall Enter First '' `` Revelation '' `` Parker 's Back '' `` Judgement Day '' Previously unavailable stories included in The Complete Stories ( 1971 ) `` The Geranium '' `` The Barber '' `` Wildcat '' `` The Crop '' `` The Turkey '' `` The Train '' `` The Peeler '' `` The Heart of the Park '' `` Enoch and the Gorilla '' `` You Ca n't Be Any Poorer Than Dead '' `` The Partridge Festival '' `` Why Do the Heathen Rage ? 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Question: when was everything that rises must converge written
Answer: 1965