We are thrilled to announce that on Oct. 13, 2010, we will host the ceremony announcing the nominees for this year's National Book Award.

The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home is open from 1-4 p.m. every day except Thursday. (Closed major holidays. Call for special summer hours: 912-233-6014.) $5 for adults, free for kids. Email flanneryoconnorhome@gmail.com for more info.

"I think you probably collect most of your experience as a child - when you really had nothing else to do - and then transfer it to other situations when you write."

Flannery O'Connor, in a letter to Maryat Lee

Flannery O'Connor lived in this house at 207 East Charlton Street in Savannah from her birth in 1925 until 1938.