Essays on Walker Percy
Introductory & Feature Essays Treating Walker Percy's Writings & Life
General Essays
On A Theory of Art
"My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort...what the artist does, or tries to do, is simply to validate the human experience and to tell people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know."
— Walker Percy
For Introductory Reading
- Walker Percy: Pilgrim in the Ruins (Book Preface) by Jay Tolson
- Walker Percy's Homeward Journey by Patrick H. Samway, S.J.
- A Caution to Serve Faith Well by John R. May
Special Topics Essays
For Advanced Reading
- Walker Percy and Southern Literature by Veronica Makowsky
- Walker Percy's Triad: Science, Literature and Religion by John F. Desmond
- "That Mysterious Phenomenon": The Affect of Percy's Works upon Readers by Kenneth Laine Ketner
- Found in the Cosmos: Percy's First Self-Help Book by Gary M. Ciuba
- Elegies for Gentleman: Walker Percy's The Last Gentleman and Eudora Welty's "The Demonstrators" by Peggy Whitman Prenshaw
- Walker Percy's Philosophy of Language (Semiotics) by Henry P. Mills
