Flannery O'Connor: An Annotated Reference Guide to Criticism

by R. Neil Scott

The Author

R. Neil Scott received his B.A. in English from the University of South Florida in 1975, his M.L.S. in Library Science and Information Science from Florida State in 1976, and his M.B.A. from Stetson University in 1982.

Professor Scott has worked as a Technical Writer for the Unisys Corporation (1976-77); Instructor and Public Services Librarian for William Carey College (1978-80); Assistant, then Associate Professor and Head of Reference Services for Stetson University (1980-86); and, as a Management Consultant with KPMG Peat Marwick (1987-88).

From 1988 to 1996 Scott served as Associate Professor and Coordinator of Information Services—including responsibility for the Flannery O’Connor Collection—at the Russell Library of Georgia College & State University (GC&SU). Then, from 1996 to 2003, he served Professor of Library Science and as Associate Director for Library Operations and Administrative Services at GC&SU. He is presently Associate Professor and User Services Librarian at Middle Tennessee State University in Murfreesboro, Tennessee.

Scott also co-authored, with Valerie Nye, Postmarked Milledgeville:  A Guide to Flannery O'Connor's Correspondence in Libraries and Archives, and has published articles in more than a dozen scholarly journals, including the Flannery O'Connor Bulletin. Professor Scott welcomes your comments; his e-mail address is RNeilScott@yahoo.com.

The Editor

Irwin Streight, Ph.D. teaches courses in literature and writing at Queen’s University and the Royal Military College in Kingston, Ontario. He completed a dissertation on Flannery O’Connor The Word Made Fiction: The Stories of Flannery O’Connor (Queen’s 1993) and has published articles on O’Connor, socio-linguistics, and contributed substantially to the Guide to Canadian Usage published by Oxford University Press (1997).