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“A Good Man Is Hard to Find” (1953)

O’Connor herself described her best-known work, “A Good Man Is Hard to Find,” as “the story of a family of six which, its way driving to Florida gets wiped out by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit.” 

“Everything That Rises Must Converge” (1961)

Later used as the name for the collection of O’Connor short stories published posthumously in 1965, the story was published in 1961 in New World Writing and won the author her second O. Henry Award for short stories. The story describes a recent college graduate in the American South being confronted with his mother’s attitudes about race as racial integration on public transportation in the South is beginning to occur.

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