# Fame.am profile — machine-readable export
# Canonical URL: https://fame.am/person/walker-percy
# Generated: 2026-08-12T20:00:10.178Z

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url: "https://fame.am/person/walker-percy"
name: "Walker Percy"
slug: "walker-percy"
description: "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."
tagline: "American philosophical novelist"
image: "https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:FilePath/Walker_Percy.jpg?width=1200"
gender: "male"
country:
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category:
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profileType:
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birthDate: "1916-05-28"
deathDate: "1990-05-10"
livingStatus: "DECEASED"
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# bio (long form, separated for readability)
bio: |
  Imported from discovery source: wikidata-dump