Flannery O'Connor's Six Months in New York City

She returned in September, stayed through the holidays, but after a controversy at Yaddo in February of 1949 she cut short her stay. What transpired was that a long-time Yaddo guest, Agnes Smedley, was accused in a NYT article of being a Communist spy, and after some tense conversations with the colony's director, O'Connor and Robert Lowell, the poet and another guest, decided to leave. So, she came to live in New York.
Those of you who, like me, cherish their worn copy of Flannery O'Connor's The Complete Stories

While she lived in New York City in 1949, Flannery O'Connor's home was the YWCA at 610 Lexington Avenue. Housed in a solid neo-Roman building near the intersection with 53rd St., the Y residences long provided an inexpensive and safe haven for young women in the city as well as career services and counseling. The YWCA has since moved its headquarters, and the old 1912-era building was torn down at the end of last year.
After her stay in New York, O'Connor moved to Ridgefield, Connecticut where she lived in the garage apartment of Sally and Robert Fitzgerald (well-known for his translations of the Greek classics). A year later, she contracted disseminated lupus, a disease that ran in her family and which brought her father's life to a close when she was 16. She subsequently moved to the family farm in Milledgeville, Georgia. She died in 1964 at the age of 39.
Images: Standard public domain picture of Flannery O'Connor; pic of O'Connor's childhood house in Savannah by Walking Off the Big Apple.