William Alexander Percy
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William Alexander Percy was a lawyer, planter, and poet from Greenville, Mississippi. His autobiography Lanterns on the Levee became a bestseller. His father LeRoy Percy was the last United States Sen
Percy c. 1941
Walker Percy
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Walker Percy, OblSB was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won t
William Alexander Percy
…LeRoy Pratt Percy and possibly LeRoy's wife Martha Susan (Mattie Sue) Phinizy Percy, who died in a car accident. William adopted his cousin's children, Walker, LeRoy (Roy) and Billups Phinizy (Phin) Percy, after they were orphaned. As adults, all three prospered. Walker Percy became a medical doctor and a…
Percy in 1987
Lower Saranac Lake in the Adirondacks, where Percy spent time recovering from tuberculosis