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Walker Percy: References & Edit History
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Assorted References
- “A Confederacy of Dunces”
- American literature
- “The Moviegoer”
Additional Reading
Two biographies of Walker Percy are Jay Tolson, Pilgrim in the Ruins (1992); and Patrick H. Samway, Walker Percy (1997). Critical interpretations include Gary M. Ciuba, Walker Percy: Books of Revelations (1991); Edward J. Dupuy, Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption (1996); Kieran Quinlan, Walker Percy: The Last Catholic Novelist (1996); and Carl Elliott and John Lantos (eds.), The Last Physician: Walker Percy and the Moral Life of Medicine (1999).
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| Type | Description | Contributor | Date |
|---|---|---|---|
| Anniversary information added. | May 24, 2024 | ||
| Anniversary information added. | May 09, 2024 | ||
| First paragraph modernization. | Apr 01, 2024 | ||
| Invalidated site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Biography ofWalker Percy. | Jan 26, 2020 | ||
| Replaced photograph. | Jul 18, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mississippi Encyclopedia - Biography ofWalker Percy. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: 64 Parishes - Biography of Walker Percy. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: Mississippi Writers and Musicians - Biography of Walker Percy. | Feb 01, 2019 | ||
| Add new Web site: The New York Times - Walker Percy, Is Dead at 74; A Novelist of the New South. | Dec 21, 2016 | ||
| Added descriptions of select books by Percy. | Oct 23, 2012 | ||
| Add new Web site: Library of University of North Carolina - Biography of Walker Percy. | Dec 01, 2010 | ||
| Bibliography revised. | Jun 23, 2006 | ||
| Article revised and updated. | Jun 23, 2006 | ||
| Article added to new online database. | Jul 20, 1998 |
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