The collection consists of two items: letter to Prof. Robert David, postmarked 26 March 1953, part of an ongoing correspondence, with mention of Scribners turning something down; Christmas and New Year's greeting card to Jon Bracker, postmarked 23 Dec. 1969, responding to questions to the effect that he was more influenced by Dostoyevsky than Chekhov, and that he has never written a short story. Both items include envelopes.
In Rare Books and Manuscripts, University Libraries, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA (#1971-0046R/VF Lit)
Source of Acquisition
Purchased from House of Books; George Houle, 1971; 1994.
Biographical or Historical Sketch
American author Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, and educated at the University of North Carolina and Columbia University; trained as a doctor, he contracted tuberculosis while working as an intern and, while recovering, began the extensive reading that distinguished his novels and other works. His first published novel, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award in 1962; subsequent philosophical novels of the new South feature accessible writing with serious themes. He has also written influential essays on language, philosophy, psychiatry, and science.
Binding notes
Housed in ShareBox 084 boxShare084 GST/P/1/5 c.1 (Archival/Manuscript Material) bound in ShareBox 084
