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- Walker Percy was born on May 28, 1916 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He was a writer, known for The Second Coming, The Moviegoer and Lancelot. He died on May 10, 1990 in Covington, Louisiana, USA.
- In 1976, seven years after the death of John Kennedy Toole, his mother gave a tattered carbon-copy of the manuscript of "Confederacy of Dunces" to Percy. It had been rejected by eight publishers, but he agreed to take a look at it. With his help, the quintessential New Orleans novel, with a foreword by Percy, was published in 1980. It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
- Biography in: "The Scribner Encyclopedia of American Lives". Volume Two, 1986-1990, pages 691-692. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons, 1999.
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