Everything That Rises Must Converge

Everything That Rises Must Converge
First edition cover
AuthorFlannery O'Connor
LanguageEnglish
GenreShort stories
PublisherFarrar Straus Giroux
Publication date
January 1965
Publication placeUnited States
Media typePrint (hard & paperback)
Pages269 pp
ISBN0-374-15012-5

Everything That Rises Must Converge is a collection of nine short stories written by Flannery O'Connor during the final decade of her life. The collection was published posthumously in 1965 and contains an introduction by Robert Fitzgerald. It includes all three of O'Connor's O. Henry Award-winning stories: "Greenleaf" (1957), "Everything That Rises Must Converge" (1963), and "Revelation" (1965). In addition, it contains two stories that were published for the first time via the collection: "Parker's Back" and "Judgement Day".