In 1982, the celebrated Louisiana portraitist George Rodrigue painted this image of Walker Percy. Last year, Rodrigue and his wife Wendy gave permission for us to use the image to promote the Walker ...

Artur Rosman has a nice post excerpting Walker Percy’s nonfiction book Lost In The Cosmos; Percy remarked on his experience watching Carl Sagan’s Cosmos, in particular Sagan’s naive ignorance of the ...

Author Walker Percy's works and life are highlighted next month at a conference hosted by the Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing at Loyola University.Inspired by Percy's best-known ...

The city of Covington will soon add a statue of novelist Walker Percy to one of its parks.The Covington City Council voted unanimously Tuesday to put the bronze statue of Percy at Bogue Falaya ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. COVINGTON, La. – He’s one of Covington’s ...

Walker Percy was arguably one of St. Tammany Parish's most famous residents, but up until now there were few public tributes to the prize-winning author or his work. On Thursday, in advance of the ...

Topics and panelists for the fifth annual Walker Percy Weekend on June 1-3 in St. Francisville have been announced. Early bird tickets on sale through March 31. According to a news release, the ...

In the summer of 1983, deciding I had the world pretty much figured out, I dipped into Louisiana author Walker Percy’s “Lost in the Cosmos,” his dryly comical rumination on the nature of existence. I ...

Filmmaker Win Riley began work on his documentary profile of author Walker Percy in 2007, but his relationship with Percy's work goes back many more years and more than halfway around the world. Like ...

The new edition of The Hopkins Review includes a previously unpublished short story by Walker Percy, one of America’s great writers. “A Detective Story,” about a married man who vanishes from his ...