Fall 2025 OLLI Digital Catalog 

Baldwin And O’Connor ‘In Conversation’ (H233)

H – Literature

Required texts: Go Tell It on the Mountain, James Baldwin, and Wise Blood, Flannery O’Connor. James Baldwin and Flannery O’Connor are among our nation’s most influential authors, although their personal histories differed dramatically. Despite their differences, both authors explore, with their expansive minds and distinctive voices, issues of human frailty and the possibility of redemption. What would their conversation have been like had they met? This course considers that question. Class reads and discusses the novels listed above, essays by the two authors and articles relevant to their work.

This offering meets for a total of 11 session(s).

INSTRUCTOR: Paul Huey-Burns

HUEY-BURNS, PAUL — J.D., University of Pennsylvania Law School; B.A., philosophy and humanities, Johns Hopkins; M.A., literary studies, Notre Dame of Maryland University. Recently retired from a career teaching English at an independent secondary school in Potomac, Maryland. Prior to his teaching career, practiced corporate and securities law in Washington, D.C. for almost four decades, both in a senior position in the federal government and as a partner in several global law firms. (H233)

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