{"id":3689,"date":"2009-11-20T07:38:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:38:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/the-highest-form-of-flannery.html"},"modified":"2009-11-20T07:38:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-20T07:38:00","slug":"the-highest-form-of-flannery","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/deaconsbench\/2009\/11\/the-highest-form-of-flannery.html","title":{"rendered":"The highest form of Flannery"},"content":{"rendered":"

It didn’t get much attention, but news moved yesterday<\/a> that a beloved prize-winning Catholic author won another prize: <\/p>\n

\n\"\"<\/a><\/span>Among the National Book Awards winners named on Wednesday night whose names may elude you, one honoree you’ve almost certainly heard of is Flannery O’Connor. <\/a><\/p>\n

In an online poll conducted by the National Book Foundation, her collection “The Complete Stories” was named the best work to have won the National Book Award for fiction in the contest’s 60-year history.<\/p>\n

The competition was steep: other finalists in the poll were “The Stories of John Cheever,” William Faulkner’s “Collected Stories,” “The Collected Stories of Eudora Welty,” Ralph Ellison’s “Invisible Man” and Thomas Pynchon’s “Gravity’s Rainbow.”<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

The National Book Award winners for this year can be found here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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It didn’t get much attention, but news moved yesterday that a beloved prize-winning Catholic author won another prize: Among the National Book Awards winners named on Wednesday night whose names may elude you, one honoree you’ve almost certainly heard of is Flannery O’Connor. 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