Walker Percy
Novelist, Author
1916 – 1990
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Who was Walker Percy?
Walker Percy, Obl.S.B. was a Southern author from Covington, Louisiana, whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a unique combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith.
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- Born
- May 28, 1916
Birmingham - Religion
- Catholicism
- Ethnicity
- White American
- Nationality
- United States of America
- Profession
- Education
- University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill
- Columbia University
- Lived in
- Louisiana
- Birmingham
- Died
- May 10, 1990
Covington
Submitted
on July 23, 2013
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