22 May 1998, 25. Rereading J.F. Powers. Catholic Women Fiction Writers, 1840-1920. The Church and the Fiction Writer. New Catholic Literature Sails in Open Sea.
Obituaries Reading an obituary is often a good way to learn more about a person's life and career.
While they are not the best place to find literary criticism of an author's work, they can be quite useful in providing biographical facts on an authors life, a summary of their literary career, awards they may have won, and professional organizations they belonged to. In addition, it is likely that an obituary of a Catholic author can be found in Catholic magazines, newspapers, and journals. It is worth the time to search the Catholic Periodical and Literature Index for this. The databases listed below can be accessed from the library's home page. While many items in this special collection are only available to scholars who visit the library, the web site is nevertheless useful for its bibliographies of O'Connor's work and criticism of her work by others.