Memorials to Walker Percy

A Collection of Formal Responses to Percy's Life by Fellow Writers and Scholars

Selected Memorials

Image of Walker Percy Memorial Announcement in The Southern Review

Presented by the Project

Memorial Address on Walker Percy by Shelby Foote
Foote was a long-time personal friend of Percy since childhood and is a well-known novelist and historian.
Memorial Address on Walker Percy by Eudora Welty
Welty was a close personal friend of Percy and is a well-known fiction writer.
Walker Percy: A Memorial by Lewis P. Simpson
Simpson is a former editor of The Southern Review and Professor of English at Louisiana State University. He was a personal friend of Percy.
Walker Percy, 1916-1990 by Louis D. Rubin, Jr.
Rubin is former Editor of The Southern Literary Journal and Professor of English at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.

Walker Percy Serenity Circle & Statue

Walker Percy Serenity Circle

The St. Tammany Parish Library in Madisonville, La., built an enduring memorial to Walker Percy in the form of a life-sized Walker Percy statue in the permanent outdoor garden known as the "Walker Percy Serenity Circle." The library also houses a Walker Percy reading room. Visitors to the Serenity Circle are welcome.

from Eudora Welty's Memorial Address

"He had elected not to practice medicine, but Walker the novelist was a brilliant, perhaps a born, diagnostician. He knew, for he was always a student of life, the prognosis of a serious spiritual malady; he could read the signs and portents of despair. He could detect how easily a spirtual disorder can overtake a fellow human being, a familiar society, or the nation we live in...."

— Eudora Welty

Walker Percy Statue

Garden photo (left) credit: John McCusker
Statue photo (bottom) credit: Crista Rock, WWL-TV
Memorial image (above) credit: The Southern Review

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