Interviews with Walker Percy

Transcribed Interviews with Walker Percy During His Career

Selected Interviews

Presented by the Project

"...the idea of man in quest, man in search, doesn't have to have any great revelation...if he's got any sense and comes to himself or herself, he spends his time searching for what happened, searching for the answer..."
— Walker Percy

Interview-Review of More Conversations with Walker Percy by Nikki Barranger
Barranger was a personal friend of Percy in Covington, La. where he is an attorney-at-law and is a founding board member of The Walker Percy Educational Project.
The Modern Prognosis: Walker Percy Interviewed by Brent Short
Short is a journalist and on faculty with St. Leo University. He conducted this interview on the occasion of Walker Percy's delivery of the Jefferson Lecture of the National Endowment of the Humanities in 1989 in Washington, DC.
The Study of Consciousness: An Interview with Walker Percy by Linda Whitney Hobson
Hobson is the author of Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography (1988) and Understanding Walker Percy (1988).
A Talk with Walker Percy by Elzbieta Oleksy
Oleksy is a Professor of literature at University of Lodz-Poland and author of Theistic Existentialism in American Letters: Hawthorne and Percy (1989).

Additional Interviews

Available on the Web

The Project's Web Signposts section and the Multimedia Gallery section provide additional interviews with Walker Percy.

Interview Book Collections

Additional Interviews are available through the following collections.

Book cover of Conversations with Walker Percy

Book cover of More Conversations with Walker Percy

AMAZON LINKS:
Conversations with Walker Percy (1985)
More Conversations with Walker Percy (1993)
[University Press of Mississippi]

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