Among the many places to learn about the queen of Southern Gothic literature in Milledgeville, a town about 100 miles from Atlanta: the O’Connor family farmhouse museum at Andalusia; Georgia College and State University’s Andalusia Interpretive Center, which features more artifacts and a timeline of the author’s life; the special collections library in Heritage Hall at GCSU; and her grave at Memory Hill Cemetery.
MILLEDGEVILLE — When the Savannah-born Flannery O’Connor, widely regarded as the queen of Southern Gothic literature, moved home to Georgia from Connecticut in 1951, she was diagnosed with lupus, an