Welcome to the Walker Percy Project! The board and staff are enthusiastic about the future of this project not only because of our belief in the work of Walker Percy, but also because of the unique nature of the project as a new educational and cultural activity.
We have envisioned the project as becoming a kind of "dynamic information community," as a new paradigm of scholarship and cultural studies dedicated to the important American novelist it treats. Today, besides serving as the most current resource on Walker Percy, the project continues to expand the ways in which its readers can get involved.
Besides the project's mainstays in the form of introductory materials and topical essays, comprehensive bibliographies, and current news and events, we in time hope to add to the scope of the project more video footage, on-line conferencing options, and other creative learning tools like the interactive-allegorical portrait. If there is something else you would like to see, please let us know. We hope you will also consider ordering from the project bookstore.
The project recently achieved status as a 501(c)3 tax exempt non-profit organization as a way to encourage the necessary support to keep its momentum. We are indeed grateful to you for any interest in the mission of the Percy Project you may have, particularly to those who choose to join the Friends of the Percy Project as a gesture of personal support and affirmation of our goals.
Henry P. Mills
Director & Editor
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"The purpose for which the corporation is organized is to promote the cultural impact of the work of the late American writer Walker Percy by promoting public educational activities concerned with his work and thought in any and all ways that are lawful for non-profit corporations, and specifically, but without excluding other lawful activities, to operate and financially support an Internet Web-Site focusing on the work of the late Dr. Percy as well as other matters of collateral interest to persons attracted to his oeuvre, his biographical data, archives and like matters and to raise funds for these purposes"
--from the Non-Profit Articles of Incorporation of The Walker Percy Educational Project, Incorporated
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