Please join us as we welcome author Katheryn Krotzer Laborde to the Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home for a book reading and signing of her latest book, Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan.
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About the book:
In [O'Connor's] biographies, little is said of her time in Gotham; in some sources, this period gets no more than one sentence. But little is said because little has been known. In Flannery O’Connor’s Manhattan, the author’s goal is to explore New York City from O’Connor’s point of view. To do this, the author consults not just letters (both unpublished and published) and biography, but five personal address books housed in Emory’s Stuart A. Rose Manuscript, Archives and, Rare Book Library. The result is a book of interest to both the O’Connor fan and the O’Connor scholar, not to mention those interested in midcentury Manhattan.

About the author:
Katheryn Krotzer Laborde is a writer of prose. A graduate of the University of New Orleans Creative Writing Workshop, her creative nonfiction has appeared in a variety of journals and websites, including South Writ Large, Poets&Writers, Free State Review, RiverSedge, Xavier Review, Callaloo, noladiaspora, Fresh Yarn, and others. She is the author of three general nonfiction books: Flannery O'Connor's Manhattan (Fordham University Press, 2024); The Story behind the Painting (Xavier Review Press, 2012); and Do Not Open (McFarland, 2010). Ms. Laborde is a Professor of English at Xavier University of Louisiana.