1. Flannery O'Connor Childhood Home Marker, 1992. Photograph by Yahan Chen.

2. Flannery aged three. From "Flannery O'Connor's Georgia." Photographs and Text by Barbara McKenzie. Foreword by Robert Coles.

3. Regina Cline O'Connor and Edward Francis O'Connor. From "Flannery O'Connor's Georgia." Photographs and Text by Barbara McKenzie. Foreword by Robert Coles.

4. Untitled drawing, circa 1931. This is likely one of the small drawings O'Connor used to make for her father, who would carry them around in his wallet to show off to people he met during the day. From "Flannery O'Connor: the Cartoons" by Kelly Gerald.

5. The Peabody Palladium newspaper page. From "Flannery O'Connor: the Cartoons" by Kelly Gerald.

6. A hand-drawn map by J.K.King, 2003. From the Georgia Historical Society archives.

7. O'Connor's Cartoons. From "Flannery O'Connor: the Cartoons" by Kelly Gerald.

8. O'Connor's artist signature. From "Flannery O'Connor: the Cartoons" by Kelly Gerald.

9. Flannery O'Connor and her self-portrait. From "The Flannery O'Connor Bulletin, Volume One," edited by Rosa Lee.

10. "Flannery O'Connor: More than a Novelist" Illustrated bookmarks, Yahan Chen, 2023.

In my creative project, I created three illustrated bookmarks that represent different stages of O'Connor's passion for visual art (Figure 10). These stages include her childhood love for chickens and reading, her career as a school cartoonist, and her later focus on painting. My intention is for readers to use these bookmarks while reading O'Connor's novels. They can serve as a reminder that there is much more to this writer than just the dark stories they have read.

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How Flannery O’Connor’s Early Cartoons Influenced Her Later Writing. PublishersWeekly.com, April 9, 2012. https://www.publishersweekly.com/pw/by-topic/industry-news/comics/article/51455-how-flannery-o-connor-s-early-cartoons-influenced-her-later-writing.html.

McKenzie, Barbara, and Robert Coles. Flannery O'Connor's Georgia. Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1980.

Flannery O'Connor (1925-1964). Georgia Encyclopedia. Accessed May 22, 2023. https://www.georgiaencyclopedia.org/articles/arts-culture/flannery-oconnor-1925-1964/.

Flannery O'Connor and the Habit of Art. The Paris Review Blog. Accessed May 21,2023. https://www.theparisreview.org/blog/2012/04/30/flannery-o%E2%80%99connor-and-the-habit-of-art/.

A fresh look at Flannery O'Connor – in cartoons. The Guardian. Accessed May 20, 2023. <https://www.theguardian.com/books/booksblog/2011/jul/05/fresh-look-flannery-o-connor-cartoons.

Flannery O'Connor Cartoons. The Marginalian. Accessed May 10, 2023. https://www.themarginalian.org/2013/12/12/flannery-oconnor-cartoons/.

O'Connor, Flannery. The Habit of Being. Edited by Sally Fitzgerald. New York: Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1998.