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The 30th stamp in the U.S. Postal Service's Literary Arts series will honor Flannery O'Connor.The color portrait on this stamp, a watercolor painting completed digitally, is based on a black-and-white photograph taken when O'Connor was a student at the Georgia State College for Women from 1942 to 1945. Surrounding O'Connor are feathers of peacocks, which she raised and wrote about.
Art director Phil Jordan of Falls Church, Va., designed the stamp, with artwork by Sam Weber of Brooklyn.
The 93-cent O'Connor stamp includes the words "Three Ounce," indicating what kind of mail it can be used for--packages weighing more than one ounce, as well as for postcards and bulky or odd-sized envelopes that require hand sorting. It will be issued June 5 as part of the Postal Service's extension of its one-ounce Forever Stamp program.
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