The Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home, which hosted Pat Conroy's announcement of the 2010 National Book Award Finalists, is open from 1-4 p.m. every day except Thursday. (Closed major holidays. Call for special summer hours: 912-233-6014.) $6 for adults, free for kids. Email flanneryoconnorhome@gmail.com for more info. (Please look for us on Facebook for photos and other information.)

"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.