©2024 Fable Group Inc.
Walker Percy avatar

Walker Percy

Author

Bio

Walker Percy (1916–1990) was one of the most prominent American writers of the twentieth century. Born in Birmingham, Alabama, he was the oldest of three brothers in an established Southern family that contained both a Civil War hero and a U.S. senator. Acclaimed for his poetic style and moving depictions of the alienation of modern American culture, Percy was the bestselling author of six fiction titles—including the classic novel The Moviegoer (1961), winner of the National Book Award—and fifteen works of nonfiction. In 2005, Time magazinenamed The Moviegoer one of the best English-language books published since 1923.

Walker Percy Books

The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos book cover

The Message in the Bottle and Lost in the Cosmos

Walker Percy
Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome book cover

Love in the Ruins and The Thanatos Syndrome

Walker Percy
The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming book cover

The Last Gentleman and The Second Coming

Walker Percy
Love in the Ruins book cover

Love in the Ruins

Walker Percy
The Message in the Bottle book cover

The Message in the Bottle

Walker Percy
The Second Coming book cover

The Second Coming

Walker Percy
Signposts in a Strange Land book cover

Signposts in a Strange Land

Walker Percy
The Thanatos Syndrome book cover

The Thanatos Syndrome

Walker Percy
Lancelot book cover

Lancelot

Walker Percy
The Last Gentleman book cover

The Last Gentleman

Walker Percy
A Confederacy of Dunces book cover

A Confederacy of Dunces

John Kennedy Toole
St. Tammany Parish book cover

St. Tammany Parish

Frederick S. Ellis
Notification Icon