Stuart Wright Collection: Walker Percy Papers, 1954-1997 (bulk 1975-1987)

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Stuart Wright Collection: Walker Percy Papers, 1954-1997 (bulk 1975-1987)

1954-1997

https://digital.lib.ecu.edu/special/ead/findingaids/1169-082

Papers of Walker Percy (1954-1997 [1975-1987]) documenting the life and literary career of the noted Birmingham, Alabama-born American novelist of the New South, consisting of three copies of a proof entitled Walker Percy: A Bibliography: 1930-1984, compiled by Stuart Wright (1985); also loose manuscript items transferred from works by Walker Percy in the Stuart Wright Book Collection, including from: Lancelot: A Novel (1977-1982), Lost in the Cosmos (1978-1997), The Message in the Bottle (1975-1983), The Movie-Goer: A Novel (1961, 1982), The Thanatos Syndrome (1987-1997), The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy (1979-1987), The Message of Auschwitz (1987), and Walker Percy: A Bibliography, by Stuart Wright (1986) ; also including a pamphlet by Walker Percy, entitled Symbol and Need (1954).

0.25 Cubic feet, 0.25 Cubic feet, 1 archival box

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East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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SNAC Resource ID: 11617648

East Carolina University. J.Y. Joyner Library

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Percy, William Alexander, 1885-1942

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William Alexander Percy was born on 14 May 1885, in Greenville, Mississippi into an illustrious family of the planter class. His mother, Camille, was a French Catholic from New Orleans; his father LeRoy Percy, was an influential Episcopalian attorney, and cotton planter who owned more than 20,000 acres under cultivation. He served as the last U. S. Senator elected by the Mississippi legislature. William Percy campaigned actively in behalf of his father's election. William Alexander Percy atte...