Walker Percy
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Gender | Male |
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Death | 34 years ago |
Date of birth | May 28,1916 |
Zodiac sign | Gemini |
Born | Birmingham |
Alabama | |
United States | |
Date of died | May 10,1990 |
Died | Covington |
Louisiana | |
United States | |
Influenced by | Albert Camus |
Jean-Paul Sartre | |
Job | Author |
Philosopher | |
Novelist | |
Education | Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons |
University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill | |
Columbia University | |
Awards | National Book Award for Fiction |
Jefferson Lecture | |
St. Louis Literary Award | |
Literari movement | Southern Gothic |
Influences | Søren Kierkegaard |
Ferdinand de Saussure | |
Gabriel Marcel | |
Eric Voegelin | |
Parents | Martha Susan Phinizy |
LeRoy Pratt Percy | |
Nominations | National Book Award for Fiction |
Place of burial | SAINT JOSEPH ABBEY, Saint Benedict, Louisiana, United States |
Date of Reg. | |
Date of Upd. | |
ID | 425064 |
Love in the Ruins
Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Gentleman
The Thanatos Syndrome
The Second Coming
The Message in the Bottle
Signposts in a strange land
Lancelot
More conversations with Walker Percy
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise
Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time
State of the Novel: Dying Art Or New Science
The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos
The Moviegoer
Lost in the Cosmos
The Last Gentleman
The Thanatos Syndrome
The Second Coming
The Message in the Bottle
Signposts in a strange land
Lancelot
More conversations with Walker Percy
The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
Diagnosing the Modern Malaise
Novel Writing in an Apocalyptic Time
State of the Novel: Dying Art Or New Science
The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy Life story
Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.