Person Detail: Walker Percy

General Information:
Full Name: Walker Percy
Biography: (1916-1990) Novelist. Walker Percy graduated from Columbia University and worked at Bellevue Hospital in Manhattan, New York. Percy spent time at Saranac Lake, New York recuperating from tuberculosis.
Author's Timeline:
1916		(Unknown) County Walker Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama in 1916.
1990		(Unknown) County Walker Percy died in Covington, Louisiana in 1990.
1941		New York County Percy received his medical degree from Columbia University in New York City in 1941. Following his graduation from Columbia University, he worked at Bellevue Hospital where he contracted tuberculosis.
1990		(Unknown) County Walker Percy was interred at Saint Joseph's Abbey in Saint Benedict, Louisiana.
1942		Franklin County Percy spent nearly four years at the Trudeau Sanitorium on Saranac Lake recuperating from tuberculosis.
1961		(Unknown) County The Moviegoer (Pub: Knopf. ISBN: ) Novel. Winner of the National Book Award for fiction in 1961.
1966		(Unknown) County The Last Gentleman Novel.
1971		(Unknown) County Love In The Ruins Novel.
1977		(Unknown) County Lancelot Novel.
1982		(Unknown) County The Second Coming Novel.
1987		(Unknown) County The Thanataos Syndrome Novel.
1991		(Unknown) County Signposts In A Strange Land Collection of short writings.
1983		Bronx County Lost In The Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book Collection of essays.