In April 1959, Flannery O’Connor traveled from her home in Milledgeville, Georgia, to Nashville. She visited with the Cheneys, and agreed to sit for an interview at Vanderbilt with fellow writer and friend Robert Penn Warren. She spoke with Penn Warren (and other students and faculty members) about her writing process and answered questions about the content of her work. In a letter to Frances Cheney dated April 10, 1959, O’Connor wrote, “I am looking forward to the visit, though not the literary chores.”