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Walker Percy

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Gender Male
Death34 years ago
Date of birth May 28,1916
Zodiac sign Gemini
Born Birmingham
Alabama
United States
Date of died May 10,1990
DiedCovington
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 burialSAINT JOSEPH ABBEY, Saint Benedict, Louisiana, United States
Date of Reg.
Date of Upd.
ID425064

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
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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
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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.

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