Walker Percy
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Walker Percy (1916 - 1990)

Walker Percy
Born in Birmingham, Shelby, Alabama, United Statesmap
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Died at age 73 in Covington, St. Tammany, Louisiana, United Statesmap
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Biography

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Walker Percy is Notable.


Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, as the first of three boys to LeRoy Pratt Percy and Martha Susan Phinizy. [[1]]

He received a medical degree from Columbia University in New York City in 1941.

He married Mary Bernice Townsend, a medical technician, on November 7, 1946.

Percy is known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, Louisiana, the first of which, The Moviegoer, published in 1961, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction

Sources


  • Wikipedia contributors, "Walker Percy," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, (accessed March 18, 2016).
  • "Louisiana Parish Marriages, 1837-1957," database with images, FamilySearch (https://familysearch.org/ark:/61903/1:1:QKJZ-6DYT : 18 February 2021), Walker Percy and Mary Bernice Townsend, 07 Nov 1946; citing Orleans, Louisiana, United States, various parish courthouses, Louisiana; FHL microfilm 2,321,125.




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