In 1962, Walker Percy (1916–1990) made a dramatic entrance onto the American literary scene when he won the National Book Award for fiction with his first novel, The Moviegoer. This…

These collected interviews, like a visit with Percy at his home on the Bogue Falaya River, provide refreshing close-up encounters with one of America’s most celebrated writers. The interviews cover…

Walker Percy was a Catholic convert who defended his faith both in essays and in fiction. This book presents a study of the author and also examines American Catholicism since…

Although Walker Percy named many influences on his work and critics have zeroed in on Kierkegaard in particular, no one has considered his intentional influence: the nineteenth-century Russian novelist Fyodor…

Walker Percy brought to his novels the perspective of both a doctor and a patient. This collection of essays explores not only Percy’s connections to medicine but also the under-appreciated…

A winner of the National Book Award, The Moviegoer established Walker Percy as an insightful and grimly humorous storyteller with a rare talent for making his people look and sound…

Explains how the radical religiosity of both Flannery O'Connor’s and Walker Percy’s vision made them so valuable as southern fiction writers and social critics. Via their spiritual and philosophical concerns…

This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR’d book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have…