
ANNOTATION
Hobson, Linda Whitney. Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography. (New Orleans: Faust Publishing Co., 1988); foreword by Walker Percy.
Hobson provides the most comprehensive available bibliography on Percy, which is organized into two halves. Part A offers a descriptive bibliography of Percy's writings [from ca. 1954] to April, 1987 (pp. 3-70). After treating his separate cover works, she divides the remainder of Percy's writings into four groups: Reviews and review essays; Articles, introductions, essays, excerpts; Interviews, speeches, panels; and Records, tapes, miscellaneous. Each is chronologically arranged. Of special note are the photographs of Percy's first edition books appearing in the beginning section and the listing there of the published foreign editions.Part B covers the secondary resources to at least Autumn, 1987 (pp. 71-115) and is divided into three main headings: Extended works (books, bibliographies, dissertations and theses); Periodical articles and reviews, biographical material, chapters in books; and Reviews and articles in newspapers and magazines. Each is organized alphabetically by author. Special features include selected reviews of the major critical studies works and the division of resource materials (reviews and essays) by the Percy novel or non-fiction work to which they pertain.