| Sponsored
by the Emory Libraries; the Manuscript, Archives,
and Rare Book Library; Hightower Fund; Creativity
and the Arts Initiative; the Aquinas Center; Emory’s
Visual Arts Program; and Georgia Center for the
Book.
Events
are free and open to the public unless specially
designated.
ABOUT
THE CELEBRATION
In
the spring of 2007 Emory University opened for
research use, the letters of Flannery O’Connor
to Betty Hester. This lengthy correspondence,
spanning the last nine years of O’Connor’s life,
had been under seal for twenty years at the request
of Betty Hester. This fall Emory mounts the first
public exhibition of this highly important correspondence:
“Dear Miss Hester”: Letters from Flannery O’Connor
to Betty Hester, 1955-1964.
On
September 26th Emory brings leading scholars to
campus for a symposium—“The Prophet’s Country”:
A Celebration of the Life and Work of Flannery
O’Connor. Ralph Wood, Professor of Theology and
Literature at Baylor University will deliver the
keynote address “‘Opposition is True Friendship’:
The Correspondence of Elizabeth Hester and Flannery
O’Connor.” |
