Articles about Walker Percy
Walker Percy short story discovered Read Street. April 8, 2009.
Walker Percy and Suicide, by John F. Desmond (Modern Age 47:1, Winter 2005) - 03/11/09.
Walker Percy and Bruce Springsteen Los Angeles Times' "Jacket Copy" January 23, 2009. Walker Percy's Bible Notes and His Fiction: Gracious Obscenity. Renascence, Spring 2007 by Wilson, Franklin Arthur
The Needle's Eye: Walker Percy's Conception of Language, Limitation and Sacrament Korrektiv Supplemental [blog] Oct. 18, 2006.
Traveling with Walker Percy, by Carl Olson, editor of Ignatius Insight. November 2004
The Abiding Mystery: A Profile of Walker Percy, by J.B. Cheaney. World and I Feb. 2004. [Subscrition required].
Walker Percy: Doctor of the Soul, by Gregory Wolf. Traces March 2004. When Catholic giants walked the land: remembering Merton, Day, O'Connor and Percy, by Tim Unsworth. National Catholic Reporter August 1, 2003.
Walker Percy: Diagnostician of the Modern Malaise, by Carl E. Olson. CatholicExchange.com (June 19, 2001).
Walker Percy and Southern Literature, by Veronica Makowsky. Written for the Walker Percy Project.
"That Mysterious Phenomenon": The Affect of Percy's Works upon Readers, by Kenneth Laine Ketner. Given at the Fifth Annual Walker Percy Symposium, April 20, 1996, St. Tammany Parish Public Library.
Walker Percy's Homeward Journey, by Patrick H. Samway, S.J. America, Vol. 170, No, 17, May 14, 1994, pp. 16-19.
Walker Percy and the Christian Scandal, by Marion Montgomery. First Things 32 (April 1993): 38-44.
The Homesick Homeless, by Molly Finn. First Things 33 (May 1993): 46-48. Review of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy, by Jay Tolson. Simon & Schuster.
Walker Percy's Courageous Life, by Amy Welborn. An introduction to various books by Walker Percy.
Walker Percy as Satirist: Christian and Humanist Still in Conflict, by Ralph C. Wood. Christian Century November 19, 1980 pp. 1122-1127.
Walker Percy and Charles S. Peirce: Abduction and Language, by Jaime Nubiola. University of Navarra, Spain.
The World of Walker Percy: A Mythology for Post-Modern Man, by William C. Cozart. Educational Studies: A Jrnl of the American Educ. Studies Assoc. 1981, Vol. 12, No. 2, Pages 163-173.
Everynovelness and the Second Coming: Walter Percy's Fiction, by Kent Gramm. Theology Today Vol. 37, January 1981.
Walker Percy as Satirist: Christian and Humanist Still in Conflict, by Ralph C. Wood. Christian Century, November 19, 1980
Greenville: Walker Percy and Shelby Foote Southern Literary Trail
Walker Percy Interviews Bruce Springsteen Doubletake #12.

Interviews

Surviving His Own Bad Habits: A previously unpublished interview with Walker Percy, by Robyn Leary. Doubletake Magazine 19, Winter 2000.
The Modern Prognosis: An Interview with Walker Percy. Interview by Brent Short. Washington, DC May, 1989. [Source: The Walker Percy Project].
Walker Percy Interviewed by Zoltíçn Abíçdi-Nagy The Art of Fiction Issue 103, Summer 1987
The Study of Consciousness: An Interview with Walker Percy (1981), by Linda Whitney Hobson. Conducted on the occasion of Walker Percy's delivery of the Jefferson Lecture of the National Endowment of the Humanities. [reprinted from Conversations with Walker Percy].

By Walker Percy

Walker Percy's foreward to A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969).
Walker Percy's address on receiving the Laetare Medal at Notre Dame in 1989 [Video @ Youtube.com].

Related Websites:

The Walker Percy Project, An Internet Literary Center directed and edited by Henry P. Mills for the University of North Carolina. The mission of the Walker Percy ILC is to provide "comprehensive access to information, resources, and people associated with American novelist and philosopher Walker Percy."
Walker Percy: From Pen to Print. Exhibition at UNC-Chapel Hill. April 17-August 15, 2002.
The Walker Percy Society


Fiction by Walker Percy
The Moviegoer. New York: Knopf, 1961, reprinted, Avon, 1980.

Book Reviews

The Last Gentlemen. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1966; reprinted, Avon, 1978.
Love In The Ruins. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1971; reprinted, Avon, 1978.

Book Reviews

Lancelot. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1977.

Book Reviews

The Second Coming. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1980.
The Thanatos Syndrome. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1987.

Nonfiction by Walker Percy
The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1975.
Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1983.
Conversations with Walker Percy, edited by VictorξA.ξKramer. Jackson: University Press of Mississippi, 1985.

Excerpts

Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, edited by Walker Percy. Norton, W. W. & Company, Inc, 1998.

Book Reviews

    Review by Ralph C. Wood. Christian Century Nov. 12, 1997.
Signposts In a Strange Land. New York: Farrar, Straus, 1991.
A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner & Walker Percy. University Press of Mississippi, October 1995.
More Conversations with Walker Percy. University Press of Mississippi, June 1993.

Books About Walker Percy
Walker Percy's Sacramental Landscape, by Allan Pridgen.

Book Reviews

    Review - Christianity & Literature. Susquehanna U.
The Life You Save May Be Your Own, by Paul Elie.

Book Reviews

    Writing lives, by Joseph Cunneen. Christian Century, May 31, 2003.
Walker Percy: A Life, by Patrick Samway, SJ. Loyola Press, March 1999.

Book Reviews

    Review by Matthew Carolan. National Review Feb. 9, 1998.
    Review by Peter A. Huff. Cross Currents Winter 1998.
    The Doubtful Pilgrim, by Robert C. Coles. New York Times June 8, 1997.

Excerpts

Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy, by JayξTolson. UNC-Chapel Hill Press. February, 1994.

Book Reviews

    The Homesick Homeless, by Molly Finn. First Things 33 (May 1993): 46-48. Review of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy, by Jay Tolson. Simon & Schuster.

Excerpts