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Walker Percy's Non-fiction Works - Book Descriptions

A Compilation of Book Descriptions of Walker Percy's Non-fiction Works

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Select a book title from the following list to review a description of each of Walker Percy's non-fiction books as found below on this page. Links to the table of contents for each book are included. These listings supplement the Project's Walker Percy semiotics section and may be printed for reference purposes.

Non-fiction Books, Essay Collections, and Correspondence

  1. The Message in the Bottle: How Queer Man Is, How Queer Language Is, and What One Has to Do with the Other (Essay collection, 1975)
  2. Lost in the Cosmos: The Last Self-Help Book (Non-Fiction book, 1983)
  3. Signposts in a Strange Land (Essay collection, 1991)
  4. A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy (Correspondence collection, 1995)
  5. Symbol and Existence: A Study in Meaning: Explorations of Human Nature (Non-fiction book, 2019)

Interview Collections

  1. Conversations with Walker Percy (1985)
  2. More Conversations with Walker Percy (1993)

Related Book

  1. The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy (Correspondence collection, 1996)

Non-Fiction Books, Essay Collections, and Correspondence

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*Editor's Note: Various book descriptions have been slightly edited for relevance, additional detail, and clarity.

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