Flannery O'Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism [Hardcover]

R. Neil Scott (Author)

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This will become, undoubtedly, the single most important starting point for readers who want to explore O'Connor's work more fully.
--Karl Martin. The Christian Librarian 46.3 (2003): 115.

The author of this impressive volume ... [has included in his] precisely worded annotated bibliography ... virtually everything ... written about O'Connor ... --James Gallant. Catholic Library World 73.4 (June 2003): n.p.

Since no other comprehensive O'Connor bibliography covering this period is available, Scott's must be considered essential for all literature collections.
--A.J. Adam. Choice: Current Reviews for Academic Libraries 40.3 (November 2002), p. 444.

Every college and university library needs this great labor of love on it shelves.   --Lawrence S. Cunningham. "Religion Booknotes." Commonweal (January 17, 2003), p. 29.

...Well suited to all academic libraries. In theology and literature courses, students should be pointed to the Guide...[for] the best scholarship on O'Connor. --Rich Gray. "Reviews." Christian Scholar's Review 32.2 (Winter 2003): 244-45.

Product Details

• Hardcover: 1061 pages
• Publisher: Timberlane Books (August 15, 2002)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0971542805
• ISBN-13: 978-0971542808
• Product Dimensions: 9.4 x 6 x 2.5 inches
• Shipping Weight: 3.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 5.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (1 customer review)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #2,852,506 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

More About the Author

R. NEIL SCOTT is the author of three books on the noted Southern American author, Flannery O'Connor:

** An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism (Timberlane Books, 2002) -- Selected by CHOICE as "Outstanding Academic Title for 2002"

** With Val Nye (College of Santa Fe), Postmarked Milledgeville: A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives (GC&SU, 2002)

** With Irwin Streight (Royal Military College of Canada), Flannery O'Connor: The Contemporary Reviews (Cambridge University Press, 2009)

Scott received his BA in English from the University of South Florida, his MBA from Stetson University and his M.S.L.S. from Florida State. Born in Montgomery, Alabama, his academic library career has been something of a tour of the South -- Instructor and Public Services Librarian at William Carey College in Hattiesburg, Mississippi (1976-80); Assistant, then Associate Professor and Head of Reference Services at Stetson University in Deland, Florida (1980-86); a one year stint as Management Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick on K Street in Washington, DC (1987-88); then, 16 years as Associate, then full Professor and Coordinator for Information Services at Georgia College & State University in Milledgeville, Georgia (1988-2004). Since 2004 he has served as Associate, then full Professor & User Services Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University where he lives with his wife, Sheila, and son, David, in beautiful, historic Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Between reference questions, teaching library research classes and writing articles and book reviews, Scott is presently: unravelling the mystery of the origin of the mummy in O'Connor's Wise Blood for a future article in Shenandoah; shopping a book manuscript around to publishers for his latest book (on the sinking of the HMS Otranto in October, 1918); and, is often seen walking his Siberian Huskey ("He who must be walked") "Max" all over the nearby Stones River National Battlefield.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Marvelous Resource, April 6, 2003

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This review is from: Flannery O'Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism (Hardcover)

I'm so respectful to the author! As the title suggests, this is a reference guide to Flannery O'Connor's criticism. More than 2,700, from published books to master theses (including foreign ones), are listed with annotations, each of which is very clear and helpful. There are also indexes, and we can find what we're looking for by author's names and subjects. I really thank the Internet technology for bringing me this great book!