num_pages: 640
description: Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Special Award"I have come to think that the true likeness of Flannery O'Connor will be painted by herself, a self-portrait in words, to be found in her letters . . . There she stands, a phoenix risen from her own words: calm, slow, funny, courteous, both modest and very sure of herself, intense, sharply penetrating, devout but never pietistic, downright, occasionally fierce, and honest in a way that restores honor to the word."—Sally Fitzgerald, from the Introduction
language: English
title: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
titlecomplete: The Habit of Being: Letters of Flannery O'Connor
genres: Catholic, Religion, Biography, Southern, Literature, Classics, Nonfiction, Writing, Memoir, Biography Memoir
ratings_count: 2026
publisher: Farrar, Straus and Giroux