About the Project
Information about the Project's scope, programs, and outreach
The Walker Percy Project, freely accessible to Percy students, general readers, and scholars over the web, is a comprehensive educational resource on the important late-20th century American novelist and philosopher it treats as its subject.
Introduction
Because the Project is Internet-based, its educational resources and program activities are offered through its website. Not financially supported by the budget of any university, the Project is managed by a volunteer staff and assisted through in-kind support from organizational sponsors.
Programs, Activities, & Resources
The Project has used numerous programs to involve a wide range of participants in its discussion, research, and educational activities. Among these are: Percy-L group discussion, scholarly materials requests, student annotations projects, and volunteer opportunities. Consistently, over 100 individuals from around the world participate in the
Percy-L listserv.
The Project's website is deliberately straightforward in its design and functionality in order to enhance website accessibility.
The online content and resources of the Project's website is diverse and substantial, including scholarly essays, Percy photographs, and personal remembrances of him; a broad array of bibliographies and research tools; as well as educational interactive learning exhibits and quizzes on Percy. The Project offers multimedia materials — including video footage of Percy and of commentators on his work — and a curated list of Percy culture links, among other uniquely compiled materials all in one website resource.
Outreach & Publicity
The Project has received national publicity through appearances in literary journals, professional publications, newspaper articles, and magazine stories. Selected venues include: The Southern Quarterly, New Orleans Magazine, Austin American-Statesman, Texas Monthly, The Walker Percy Society Delta Factor Newsletter, and Publications of the Modern Language Association.
Participants & Sponsors
The Project has many individuals and groups to thank as participants for their encouragement and contributions to the Project in its development and ongoing activities — Percy scholars, general readers, students, volunteers, and organizational sponsors, as well as collaborations with Percy-related institutions and events.
We are further grateful for those kind visitors who have offered their generous words of support for the Project.
Project History
Read more about the Project History for further details about the Project's long-standing educational efforts to promote Walker Percy's writings to all readers, of all levels, through the Internet.
January 2025
Additional Participants Information
- Director's Welcome
- Project Participants | Content Providers
- What People Are Saying about The Walker Percy Project
- Special Acknowledgments
- Project History (includes letters of support and related organizational materials)
Publicity & Recognition
- Austin American-Statesman article on The Project and founding director Henry Mills (Download PDF version)
- The Southern Quarterly, "A New Face for Postmodern Scholarship," literary essay, Henry P. Mills (PDF)
- The Walker Percy Project in the News (PDF)
Press Kit Resources (For Distribution)
- A Call for Interest (Print version) - The Walker Percy Project (PDF)
- A Call for Interest (Email Version) - The Walker Percy Project (PDF)
- What People Are Saying about The Walker Percy Project (PDF)
- Literary Website Celebrates Walker Percy Centennial (Press Release) (PDF)
- The Walker Percy Project - Handout Flyer (PDF)
- About Henry P. Mills III (Profile) (PDF)
Additional History
- Read more about the Project History.
20th Century American Writer and Philosopher Walker Percy