Flannery O'Connor
This celebrity goo was created by Scott Hardie.
This goo was worth a point in December 2025.
publication date: Wednesday, December 24, 2025 (part of December 2025)
category: 
Literature
clue: Merely quoting Matthew 11:12 would have gotten you nowhere with this writer, for whom it's true that a gooed answer is hard to find.
explanation: The title of O'Connor's second novel The Violent Bear It Away is taken from Matthew 11:12. She also wrote the story collection A Good Man Is Hard to Find and the story of the same title. "Gotten you nowhere with" was a pun based on her name (as in "flattery will get you nowhere"). more…
intended difficulty: hard
solved by: Russ Wilhelm, Steve West, Samir Mehta, and Richard Slominsky
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