A Good Man Is Hard to Find (short story)

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
"A Good Man Is Hard to Find"
Short story by Flannery O'Connor
	The work's title was taken from the 1917 Eddie Green song that includes the lines "A good man is hard to find / You always get the other kind". (1918 sheet music cover.)
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre(s)	Southern Gothic, short story, dialogue
Publication
Published in	Modern Writing I
Publication type	Short story collection
Publisher	Avon
Media type	Print
Publication date	1953

"A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a Southern gothic short story first published in 1953 by author Flannery O'Connor who, in her own words, described it as "the story of a family of six which, on its way driving to Florida [from Georgia], is slaughtered by an escaped convict who calls himself the Misfit".^[2]

The story remains the most anthologized and most well-known of all of O'Connor's works.^[3]

^ Curley, Edwin (November 1991). "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 65 (3): 29–30. doi:10.2307/3130141. JSTOR 3130141.
^ O'Connor, Flannery (1969) [1963]. "On Her Own Work". In Fitzgerald, Sally; Fitzgerald, Robert (eds.). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (published 2012). ISBN 9781466829046.
^ Frank, Connie Ann (2008). Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor. Facts on File. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-8160-6417-5.

[1] Curley, Edwin (November 1991). "A Good Man Is Hard to Find". Proceedings and Addresses of the American Philosophical Association. 65 (3): 29–30. doi:10.2307/3130141. JSTOR 3130141.

[2] O'Connor, Flannery (1969) [1963]. "On Her Own Work". In Fitzgerald, Sally; Fitzgerald, Robert (eds.). Mystery and Manners: Occasional Prose. Farrar, Straus and Giroux (published 2012). ISBN 9781466829046.

[3] Frank, Connie Ann (2008). Critical Companion to Flannery O'Connor. Facts on File. p. 397. ISBN 978-0-8160-6417-5.

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