The House of Percy
honor, melancholy, and imagination in a Southern family
Southern states, in literature
Southern States
American fiction, history and criticism, 20th century
Intellectuals
Authors, american
Homes and haunts
American Authors
Intellectual life
Biography
The novels of Walker Percy - The Moviegoer, Lancelot, The Second Coming, and The Thanatos Syndrome to name a few - have left a permanent mark on twentieth-century Southern fiction; yet the history of the Percy family in America matches anything, perhaps, that he could have created. Two centuries of…
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