Craig Amason, Executive Director of the Flannery O'ConnorAndalusia Foundation of Milledgeville, will be the guest speaker for the meeting of the Friends of the Mary Willis Library on May 11, at 3 p.m.

Amason will give information about the Foundation and its mission. Andalusia is the O'Connor childhood home.

Amason has devoted years of study on the brief career and memory of the late Georgia writer. In the late 1950s, while still a young woman in her 20s, Flannery O'Connor began to exhibit symptoms of Lupus, the disease that had killed her father. Her condition

forced her to leave Connecticut as she was still working on her first novel, Wise Blood.

She continued working on revised drafts of the novel even while she was in the hospital. But instead of returning to the family home in town, O'Connor and her mother moved to the family farm, Andalusia, where Flannery lived for 13 years until her death in 1964.

At Andalusia, O'Connor wrote a second novel and two collections of highly acclaimed short stories.

The public is invited to this rare literary afternoon arranged by Martha Coulter, vice-president. Refreshments will be served.