![]() ![]() ![]() ![]() Included is correspondence with novelist and teacher Caroline Gordon, Gordon’s husband, poet Allen Tate, novelists Walker Percy and Katherine Anne Porter, Father McCown and O’Connor’s steadiest correspondent, the reclusive Betty Hester, who is identified in “The Habit of Being” only as “A.” “If you put the context for the letters in there, you would have an epistolary biography, and that’s what my book turned out to be.” “I believe ‘The Habit of Being’ is underedited,” said Alexander. Alexander, who also provides an introduction to almost every letter, explaining the circumstances of the exchange, the events of the time, and the significance of the moment. It was edited by O’Connor scholar Benjamin B. McCown, who was a steady source of inspiration for the writer. The volume offers more than a hundred of the uncollected letters of O’Connor, many of them between the writer and a Macon Jesuit priest, Father James H. ![]()
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