<Tr> <Th> Media type </Th> <Td> Print </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Publication date </Th> <Td> 1953 </Td> </Tr> <P> "A Good Man Is Hard to Find" is a short story written by Flannery O'Connor in 1953 . The story appears in the collection of short stories of the same name . The interpretive work of scholars often focuses on the controversial final scene . </P> <P> The story was first published in 1953 in the anthology The Avon Book of Modern Writing . In 1960, it was collected in the anthology The House of Fiction, published by Charles Scribner's Sons . "A Good Man Is Hard to Find," because of its publication in many anthologies, became the most well known of O'Connor's works . </P>

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