For more information, contact:
John Desmond, President
The Walker Percy Society
Department of English
Whitman College
Walla Walla, WA 99362
E-Mail: desmond@whitman.edu
The Delta Factor, Vol. 1 No. 1 , 1994
--Message to Members by John Desmond
--Call for Papers
--No 'Happily Ever After' for Walker Percy's Characters by Patricia Rice (interview)
St. Louis Post-Dispatch, April 23, 1985
--Publication News
The Delta Factor, Vol. 2 No. 1, 1995
--A Conversation with Walker Percy
Fr. Dennis Corrado and Fr. James Hinchey conducted this interview in 1985. This reprinting includes a notice of St. James Cathedral's Composteia Award, bestowed on Percy June 7, 1985.
--Publication News
--Call for Papers
--Book Reviews
Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy--News of Interest
By Jay Tolson
Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Reviewed by Linda Whitney HobsonWalker Percy's Feminine Characters Ed. Lewis A. Lawson and Elzbieta H. Oleksy
Whitston Publishing Company, 1995.
Reviewed by Gary M. CiubaThe House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Oxford University Press, 1994
Reviewed by Edward J. Dupuy
The Delta Factor, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1996
--A Conversation with Walker Percy, Part Two (continued from last issue)
--Publication News
--Call for Papers
--News of Interest
--Book Reviews
Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repitition, Recovery, and Redemption
By Edward J. Dupuy
Louisiana State University Press, 1996.
Reviewed by Linda Whitney Hobson