– Advance paid to Flannery O’Connor by Harcourt, Brace in 1955 for The Violent Bear It Away: $1,250
– The same amount in today’s dollars, courtesy of Inflation Calculator: $8,588.02
(Source: Library of America, Flannery O’Connor: Collected Works)
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