June 2, 2015 |
Flannery O'Connor Honored

The 30th stamp in the USPS's Literary Arts series--which includes Ralph Ellison, Mark Twain, and Ernest Hemingway, among others--it features a watercolor image of O'Connor, based on a black-and-white photograph taken when she was a student at Georgia State College for Women in the 1940s. The vivid peacock feathers surrounding her call to mind the peafowl she raised on a farm in Georgia during the last fourteen years of her life, after she had been diagnosed with lupus. She died at 39 of complications from the disease.
A First Day Cover and a Digital Color Postmark, neat additions to any O'Connor collection, will also be made available from the USPS. The stamp issues from McLean, Virginia.
Image via USPS. The artist for this stamp was Sam Weber. Art director Phil Jordan designed the stamp.