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McMullen, Joanne Halleran; Peede, Jon Parrish, eds. (2007). Inside the Church of Flannery O'Connor: Sacrament, Sacramental, and the Sacred in Her Fiction. Macon, Georgia: Mercer University Press. ISBN   9780881460551. OCLC   301226088.

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Jon Parrish Peede
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Chair of the National Endowment for the Humanities
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May 3, 2018 January 20, 2021