 In 1951, Flannery O'Connor returned to her home state of Georgia, where she had grown up, after being diagnosed with a form of lupus.She first lived in the family home of her mother, Regina, on Greene Street in Milledgeville, then owned by her uncles Louis and Bernard Cline.There, she finished her manuscript for her novel "Wise Blood" and, with her health improving, she moved with her mother to Andalusia, then still a working farm.