See Inside the Childhood Home of Flannery O'Connor, Born 100 Years Ago in Savannah

Tuesday marks what would have been the 100th birthday of Flannery O'Connor, born March 25, 1925, in Savannah, Ga., where she spent her first 13 years — one-third of the author's short but prolific life.

Known for her dark short stories that explored complicated questions of faith and morality in the rural South, O'Connor became one of the most acclaimed writers of her time, pioneering the Southern Gothic style of literature before her death in 1964.

Although often associated with Milledgeville, Ga., where she spent most of her adult life on her family's farm known as Andalusia, it was O'Connor's upbringing in Savannah as an only child during the Great Depression that provided her early foundation, helping to shape her into the eccentric creative she'd one day become.

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