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The Artificial Nigger

Flannery O'Connor

First published 1955
Type Short Fiction
Length Short Story

Mr. Head takes his ten-year-old grandson to Atlanta; in his small-town upbringing, the boy has never seen a black person. In the city, they have various bewildering and humiliating experiences, including getting lost in a black neighborhood.

First published in the Kenyon Review, Spring 1955.

Date Publication Publisher Type Page
1955 Cover A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories Harcourt, Brace & Company Collection 102
1956 Cover The Best American Short Stories 1956 Houghton Mifflin Anthology 264
1987 Cover The Art of the Tale: An International Anthology of Short Stories Penguin Books (US) Anthology 533
October 1992 Cover A Good Man Is Hard to Find and Other Stories Harcourt Brace Collection 98