Walker Percy

And all three states gave us writers like William Faulkner, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, F.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hold On, Alabama, Your Country's Here For You RJ 2011

And all three states gave us writers like William Faulkner, Walker Percy, Flannery O'Connor, F.

Richard (RJ) Eskow: Hold On, Alabama, Your Country's Here For You RJ 2011

My usual haunt, Maple Street Used and Rare, is covered in photos of author Walker Percy.

Karen Dalton-Beninato: New in New Orleans: No Matter How Many Skies Have Fallen Karen Dalton-Beninato 2011

Its publication came 11 years after author John Kennedy Toole committed suicide at the age of 32, and it reached print only because of the singular persistence of his mother, who harassed novelist Walker Percy so intently that he finally agreed to read the lone ink-smudged manuscript in her possession.

June 2010 2010

Walker Percy proclaimed that he never understood an enthusiasm for overproof whiskey, as it only meant one had to drink less.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

Novelist Walker Percy suggested that descending into the darkness of a movie theater is like descending into Plato's cave, where shadows on the wall trace the story of the world outside.

Brian D. McLaren: Avatar, the Congo, the Gulf, and Wall Street 2010

Well, while Zora Neale Hurston and Walker Percy were born in Alabama, those two great writers didn't stick around my home state for long.

What 'To Kill a Mockingbird' Isn't 2010

Walker Percy proclaimed that he never understood an enthusiasm for overproof whiskey, as it only meant one had to drink less.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

Walker Percy proclaimed that he never understood an enthusiasm for overproof whiskey, as it only meant one had to drink less.

CHASING the WHITE DOG MAX WATMAN 2010

Novelist Walker Percy, a native, best explained the effects of cross-cultural corruption in the port city of New Orleans: Unfortunately and all too often, the Latins learned Anglo-Saxon racial morality and the Americans learned Latin political morality.

FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER MATT LABASH 2010