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<text id=90TT1339>
<title>
May 21, 1990: Died:Walker Percy
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<history>
TIME--The Weekly Newsmagazine--1990
May 21, 1990 John Sununu:Bush's Bad Cop
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<source>Time Magazine</source>
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MILESTONES, Page 47
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<p> DIED. Walker Percy, 73, pre-eminent Southern novelist and
essayist whose first published novel, The Moviegoer, won a
National Book Award for fiction for 1961; of cancer; in
Covington, La. His six novels, among them Love in the Ruins and
Lancelot, dramatized his chosen theme, "the dislocation of man
in the modern age." Alabama-born, Percy forsook his medical
training and Protestantism and turned to writing and Roman
Catholicism. He spun his existential view of humans into
muscular and compelling stories that place him in the Southern
pantheon of writers including William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe
and Eudora Welty.
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