Flannery O’Connor is far superior to Ayn Rand. Her fiction has the depth that comes from the accurate understanding of the fallen nature of her characters and their need of redemption. Rand’s work remains on the shallower level because without the proper understanding of human nature that comes with understanding Christianity, it is going to miss the mark.
Why the deuce should anyone care a fig what Flannery O’Connor wrote? Her bio makes her seem like Stephen King's mad spinster aunt!