Percy Manuscripts and Related Materials


There are three main collections of materials pertaining to Walker Percy's work and life. These include his personal papers held at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, the Knopf Collection at the University of Texas at Austin, and a biographical collection currently being archived at Loyola University in New Orleans.


For more information about accessibility, you may consult the following listed resources. For brief descriptions of the collections, see below.

With readership support, the project hopes in the future to bring you copies of the following:

  1. Walter West's 1992 Walker Percy Symposium address, "Extending Walker Percy's Legacy: The Story of His Papers at UNC-CH";
  2. Heather Moore's 1993 essay "Walker Percy's The Moviegoer: A Publishing History (The Library Chronicle of the University of Texas, 22.4: 123-144); and
  3. A complete inventory of the Loyola Collection once it becomes available.

Collection Descriptions


last updated: 12 January 97


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