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- Instance of
- human
- Born
- 28 May 1916
- Died
- 10 May 1990
- Place of birth
- Birmingham
- Place of death
- Covington
- Sex or gender
- male
- Given name
- Walker
- Family name
- Percy
- Father
- LeRoy Pratt Percy
- Genre
- essay
- Occupation
- writer, novelist, philosopher, physician
- Citizenship
- United States
- Religion
- Catholic Church
- archives at
- Louis Round Wilson Library
- cause of death
- prostate cancer
- educated at
- Columbia University Vagelos College of Physicians and Surgeons, University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill, Columbia University, Greenville High School
- employer
- Louisiana State University
- influenced by
- Albert Camus, Charles Sanders Peirce, Gabriel Marcel, Jean-Paul Sartre, Søren Kierkegaard, Susanne Langer, Thomas Aquinas
- languages spoken, written or signed
- American English
- manner of death
- natural causes
- nominated for
- National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, National Book Award for Fiction, PEN/Faulkner Award for Fiction
- notable work
- The Moviegoer
- place of burial
- Louisiana
- religious order
- Benedictines
- residence
- Birmingham, Louisiana
- writing language
- English
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