Were Sylvia Wynter and Mary Flannery O'Connor both essayists?
Flannery O'Connor Mary Flannery O'Connor (March 25, 1925August 3, 1964) was an American writer and essayist. She wrote two novels and thirty-two short stories, as well as a number of reviews and commentaries. She was a Southern writer who often wrote in a Southern Gothic style and relied heavily on regional settings and grotesque characters. Her writing also reflected her Roman Catholic faith and frequently examined questions of morality and ethics. Her posthumously compiled "Complete Stories" won the 1972 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction and has been the subject of enduring praise.
F. Tennyson Jesse Fryniwyd Tennyson Jesse (born Wynifried [also recorded as Winifred] Margaret Jesse, 1 March 1888 – 6 August 1958) was an English criminologist, journalist and author (she also wrote as "Wynifried Margaret Tennyson"). She was the second of three daughters of the Reverend Eustace Tennyson D'Eyncourt Jesse, and a great-niece of the poet Alfred, Lord Tennyson. She married Harold Marsh Harwood (1874–1959), a businessman and theatre manager, in September 1918. "Fryn" is a self-made contraction of "Wynifried".