WALKER PERCY - AUTOGRAPH NOTE SIGNED - HFSID 23051
Price: $160.00
WALKER PERCY
3x5 card signed "best wishes" by Percy
Inscribed signature: For Nancy Pernan/best wishes/Walker Percy".
4¾x3 card. Percy (1918-1990, born in Birmingham, Alabama) was
an American novelist who wrote about existentialism, modern despair and the
changes wrought on the South by industry. Percy trained to be a doctor at
the University of North Carolina and Columbia University, gaining his M.D. in
1941. But he contracted tuberculosis while working as a pathologist at New York
City's Bellevue Hospital. He switched his career to writing while recovering at
a sanatorium in the Adirondacks, where he read the works of Danish
existentialists and converted to Roman Catholicism. Percy began his career by
writing articles for philosophical, literary and psychiatric journals and didn't
publish his first novel, The Moviegoer, until 1961. An auspicious start,
The Moviegoer won a National Book Award and introduced his concept of
"Malaise", or despair caused by the rootlessness of the modern world. Percy
wrote a total of six novels, including The Moviegoer, between 1961 and
1987, and numerous nonfiction works on writing and philosophy. Lightly toned.
Small red stain touching "Pe" in Pernan. Otherwise in fine
condition.
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