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A Good Man Is Hard to Find is a Southern gothic story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O’Connor. In it, an entire family, just looking to go on vacation in sunny southern Florida, instead finds themselves on the run from a serial killer. One of the interesting aspects of this story is the focus on the serial killer himself, which didn’t become a real thing until the 1970s. Remember, it wasn’t until 1957 that Charles Starkweather went on his famous killing spree. Ed Gein wasn’t discovered until 1957, either.

The story remains the most anthologized and most well-known of all of O’Connor’s works. It was first published in 1953 in the short-story anthology Modern Writing, by Avon Publishing.

Mary Flannery O’Connor was an American novelist, short story writer, and essayist. She wrote two novels and 31 short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. Her most well-known writing style was the Southern Gothic. A Good Man Is Hard to Find is by far her most well-known story.

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