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Pronunciation: [wˈɔːkə pˈɜːsi] (IPA)

Walker Percy was an American novelist, essayist, and philosopher who explored the anxieties and questions of modern life in his works. Some synonyms for the name "Walker Percy" include literary scholar, existentialist writer, cultural critic, and Southern intellectual. Percy was known for his acute observations on the human condition and his deep insight into the struggles of the modern world. His writing dealt with themes of alienation, loss of faith, and identity crisis. Some of his popular works include "The Moviegoer," "Love in the Ruins," and "The Thanatos Syndrome." Percy's influence on American literature and philosophy has been recognized by numerous awards and accolades.

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  • "Sixty years ago Catholics played a prominent, prestigious, and irreplaceable part in American literary culture...They included established fiction writers--Flannery O'Connor, Katherine Anne Porter, Walker Percy, J.F. Powers, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Horgan, Jack Kerouac, Julien Green, Pietro di Donato, Hisaye Yamamoto, Edwin O'Connor, Henry Morton Robinson, and Caroline Gordon. (Sociologist Father Andrew Greeley had yet to try his formidable hand at fiction.)...also science fiction and detective writers such as Anthony Boucher, Donald Westlake, August Delerth, and Walter Miller, Jr."...in American poetry...Allen Tate, Robert Lowell, Robert Fitzgerald, Kenneth Rexroth, John Berryman, Isabella Gardner, Phyllis McGinley, Claude McKay, Dunstan Thompson, John Frederick Nims, Brother Antoninus (William Everson), Thomas Merton, Josephine Jacobsen, and the Berrigan brothers, Ted and Daniel....There were even Catholic haiku poets, notably Raymond Roseliep and Nick Virgilio" (15-16).
    Dana Gioia
  • I think it's Romney. I think he's stealing in "like a thief with good tools," in Walker Percy's old words. While everyone is looking at the polls and the storm, Romney's slipping into the presidency. He's quietly rising, and he's been rising for a while.
    Peggy Noonan

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