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Everything you ever wanted to know about Walker Percy...
and possibly even some things you did NOT want to know...)
This web page is a portal to other web sites, information, resources, books, essays, and organizations devoted to Walker Percy. Walker Percy was a physician, scientist, contemporary novelist, and philosopher. He lived from 1916 to 1990, and he's written six books of fiction, and three books of non-fiction. The Moviegoer won the "National Book Award," Love in the Ruins won a national Catholic book award, and he has won numerous other awards. His characters are generally reflective of his background: Southern, Louisianan, and Catholic, and the themes of his novel are the existential alienation of modern man in a materialistic and scientifc society. Funny, witty, insightful, Percy and his novels are worthy of your time. For greater discussion of Percy, see the dissertation portal. For more discussion of his books and links to buy them, see the books page.
Following are some websites devoted to Walker Percy:
Site Listings
Organizations
Walker Percy Project - Perhaps the most comprehensive website available on Walker Percy, this organization is devoted to the thought and works of the novelist.
Portals
Open Directory Project - a portal to biographies, essays, and interviews on Walker Percy…
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Resources for Further Study of the Thought of Walker Percy - annotated directory which includes book reviews, commentary, interviews, and reading questions for The Moviegoer.
Walker Percy and Southern Literature - includes a definition of Southern literature and a list of suggested readings.
Resources on Walker Percy's Semiotics
Biographies
Essays and Book Excerpts
FROM PERCY:
The Augustine Club at Columbia University - Selections from Percy
SECONDARY SOURCES:
Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, Redemption by Edward J. Dupuy - LSU Press describes the book.
Walker Percy and Charles S. Peirce: Abduction and Language - an essay by James Nubiola, University of Navarra, Spain
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal - 1989 interview with First Things, a journal of religion and public life.
"That Mysterious Phenomenon": The Affect of Percy's Works upon Readers by Kenneth Laine Ketner
Walker Percy's Triad: Science, Literature and Religion by John F. Desmond
Neurobiology and Psychoanalysis in the Work of Walker Percy by Lewis Lawson
Walker Percy and Southern Literature by Veronica Makowsky
Walker Percy's Homeward Journey by Patrick H. Samway, S.J.
Walker Percy: Pilgrim in the Ruins by Jay Tolson
Philosophy of Language (Semiotics) by Henry P. Mills
A New Face for Post-Modern Scholarship... (excerpt, Mills)
Interviews
Review by Nikki Barranger of More Conversations with Walker Percy by Lawson and Kramer - Barranger has fictional interview with spirit of deceased Percy.
The Study of Consciousness: An Interview with Walker Percy by Linda Whitney Hobson
The Modern Prognosis: An Interview with Walker Percy -by Brent Short
Bibliographies
Walker Percy Papers Inventory - from the Manuscripts Department at the Library of the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Miscellenea
Walker Percy HyperMail Archives - from the Percy-L mailing list.
Buy the Books
The Walker Percy Project bookstore - You can purchase books by and about Walker Percy on-line at this site, and benefit the on-going support of Walker Percy at the same time.
The Books page at this site will give you more information on the books.
