Walker Percy
American philosophical novelist · United States · On the map · Writers · Lived 1916 to 1990 · aged 73
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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1990Died10 May 19901989Jefferson LectureAwardLaetare MedalAward1985St. Louis Literary AwardAward1962National Book AwardAward1916Born28 May 1916
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Lived 1916 to 1990 · aged 73
