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• Walker Percy, The Last Catholic Novelist, Kieran Quinlan
• At the Crossroads: Ethical and Religious Themes in the Writings of Walker Percy, John F. Desmond
• The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy, Jay Tolson, Editor
• Walker Percy: A Life, Patrick Samway, S.J.
• Walker Percy: Prophetic, Existentialist, Catholic Storyteller, Robert Lauder
• Literature and Belief (Brigham Young Univ.) Winter 1997
  A special topics issue entitled "Walker Percy and the Next Millennium" as guest edited by John F. Desmond and Bruce Edwards. Contact: Literature and Belief, 3076 E JKHB, P. O. Box 26272, BYU, Provo, UT 84604-9989 to order a copy.

• Walker Percy's Feminine Characters, Lewis A. Lawson and Elzbieta H. Oleksy, Editors
• Still Following Percy, Lewis A. Lawson
• A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy, Patrick Samway, S.J., Editor
• Autobiography in Walker Percy: Repetition, Recovery, and Redemption, Edward Dupuy

"My theory is that the purpose of art is to transmit universal truths of a sort, but of a particular sort, that in art, whether it's poetry, fiction or painting, you are telling the reader or the listener or the viewer something he already knows but which he doesn't quite know that he knows, so that in the action of communication he experiences a recognition, a feeling that he has been there before, a shock of recognition. And so what the artist does, or tries to do, is simply to validate the human experience and to tell people the deep human truths which they already unconsciously know." --W.P. from an interview