The Walker Percy Society

Founded in October, 1993, The Walker Percy Society is an "organization dedicated to fostering the study of writings of Walker Percy through the exchange amongst scholars, the organization of special meetings and conference sessions, and a newsletter." Presently the society lists more than 200 members from North America, Europe, and the Far East. Membership dues: $5.00, which includes a subscription to THE DELTA FACTOR.

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




PAST ISSUES (TABLE OF CONTENTS)

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
By Jay Tolson
Simon and Schuster, 1992.
Reviewed by Linda Whitney Hobson

Walker Percy's Feminine Characters Ed. Lewis A. Lawson and Elzbieta H. Oleksy
Whitston Publishing Company, 1995.
Reviewed by Gary M. Ciuba

The House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
By Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Oxford University Press, 1994
Reviewed by Edward J. Dupuy

--News of Interest
--Percy on World Wide Web!

The Delta Factor, Vol. 3 No. 1, 1996

--Lost in the Cosmos stage play handbill (image)
--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


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