Walker Percy

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American philosophical novelist

United States WritersLived 1916 to 1990 · aged 73

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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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Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, where Percy spent time recovering from tuberculosis

Awards 4

1989Jefferson Lecture

1989Laetare Medal

1985St. Louis Literary Award

1962National Book Award

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FatherLeRoy Pratt Percy

Connected to Walker 6

Drew Gilpin FaustAlso won Jefferson Lecture

Helen PrejeanAlso won Laetare Medal

Margaret DrabbleAlso won St. Louis Literary Award

Donald KaganAlso won Jefferson Lecture

Antonia FraserAlso won St. Louis Literary Award

Edward Douglass White Jr.Also won Laetare Medal

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