Photograph Gallery
A Gallery of Photographs Portraying Walker Percy's Life & Work
A public figure but a private person, Walker Percy didn't often pose for photoographs. Select a category to browse the Project's online photograph gallery.
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Includes photographs of the Percy by himself, with books, on the porch, close-ups, with others, and more.
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Includes images of Percy book jackets to the first editions, monographs, foreign books, and special items.
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Includes photographs of the Percy house, study, grounds, The Kumquat, Maple Street Book Shop, and more.
"You would like for your characters to get out of the fix they are in and achieve some kind of happiness. The best way to do it, the easiest way to do it, is to fall in love. A man falls in love with a woman or vice versa. If both happen at the same time, that's pretty good..."
— Walker Percy