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Which one of these renowned American novelists was a pallbearer at Eudora Welty's funeral in 2001 and remains her literary executor (in fact, he grew up in her neighborhood and attended the same high school as she did)?
a. Don DeLillo
b. Richard Ford
c. Cormac McCarthy
d. Walker Percy
e. Philip Roth
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Walker Percy

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born

May 28, 1916

died

May 10, 1990

gender

male

place of birth

Birmingham, Alabama, The United States

genre

Literature & Fiction

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Walker Percy was an American Southern author whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is best known for his philosophical novels, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction in 1962. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age," and his work exhibited a unique combination of existentialism, Southern sensibility and deep Catholic faith.

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avg rating: 3.82 | 5,908 ratings | 574 reviews | 21 distinct works | 19 fans

	The Moviegoer by Walker Percy avg rating 3.79 — 2,861 ratings — published 1960 18 editions	my rating:
	Love in the Ruins by Walker Percy avg rating 3.89 — 534 ratings — published 1971 8 editions	my rating:
	Lancelot: A Novel by Walker Percy avg rating 3.68 — 431 ratings — published 1977 7 editions	my rating:
	The Last Gentleman: A Novel by Walker Percy avg rating 3.89 — 378 ratings — published 1966 9 editions	my rating:
	The Second Coming: A Novel by Walker Percy avg rating 3.86 — 370 ratings — published 1980 9 editions	my rating:
	Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book by Walker Percy avg rating 4.10 — 339 ratings — published 1983 9 editions	my rating:
	The Thanatos Syndrome: A Novel by Walker Percy avg rating 3.54 — 338 ratings — published 1987 8 editions	my rating:
	Signposts in a Strange Land: Essays by Walker Percy avg rating 4.29 — 116 ratings — published 1991 4 editions	my rating:
	The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do With the Other by Walker Percy avg rating 4.06 — 110 ratings — published 1975 3 editions	my rating:
	Conversations With Walker Percy (Literary Conversations Series) by Walker Percy, Lewis A. Lawson, Victor A. Kramer avg rating 3.85 — 27 ratings — published 1985 2 editions	my rating: