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- DIED. Walker Percy, 73, pre-eminent Southern novelist and
- essayist whose first published novel, The Moviegoer, won a
- National Book Award for fiction for 1961; of cancer; in
- Covington, La. His six novels, among them Love in the Ruins and
- Lancelot, dramatized his chosen theme, "the dislocation of man
- in the modern age." Alabama-born, Percy forsook his medical
- training and Protestantism and turned to writing and Roman
- Catholicism. He spun his existential view of humans into
- muscular and compelling stories that place him in the Southern
- pantheon of writers including William Faulkner, Thomas Wolfe
- and Eudora Welty.
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