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Percy was born on May 28, 1916, in Birmingham, Alabama, the first of three boys to LeRoy Pratt Percy and Martha Susan Phinizy. [3] His father's Mississippi Protestant family included his great-uncle LeRoy Percy, a US senator, and LeRoy Pope Walker, a pro-slavery secessionist in Antebellum America and the first Confederate States Secretary of War during the American Civil War. [4]
Love in the Ruins (subtitle:The Adventures of a Bad Catholic at a Time Near the End of the World) is a novel of speculative or science fiction by author Walker Percy from 1971. [1] It follows its main character, Dr Thomas More, namesake and descendant of Sir Thomas More (author of Utopia), a psychiatrist in a small town in Louisiana called ...
Percy and Maria named their third son, LeRoy Pope, after her father. The youngest was named William Alexander. [1] John William Walker reciprocated by naming one of his sons Percy. The Percys' youngest son, William Alexander Percy, married Nana Armstrong, a daughter of William Armstrong, a wealthy US Indian agent.
The Thanatos Syndrome (1987) was Walker Percy's last novel. It is a sequel to Love in the Ruins.Set in the near future in Feliciana, it tells the story of an imprisoned psychiatrist who is freed and returns to his town with the active members demonstrating new mysterious behaviors.
A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. [2] Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, Thelma, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction ...
Thomas Percy (died 1572), MP for Westmorland; Thomas Percy, 7th Earl of Northumberland (1528–1572), led the Rising of the North and was executed for treason, beatified by the Catholic Church; Thomas Percy, 1st Baron Egremont (1422–1460), son of Henry Percy, 2nd Earl of Northumberland and Lady Eleanor Neville; Thomas Percy (bishop of Norwich ...
The Moviegoer is the debut novel by Walker Percy, first published in the United States by Alfred A. Knopf in 1961. [2] It won the U.S. National Book Award. [3] Time included the novel in its "Time 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". [4]
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book is a mock self-help book by Walker Percy, [1] published in 1983 by Farrar Straus & Giroux. Organized into roughly four sections that explore ideas of the self, Percy's thesis is that the social ills which plague society are a result of humanity's epic identity crisis.