Walker Percy

Walker Percy and his wife, Mary, converted to Roman Catholicism when they moved to New Orleans in the late 1940s, and he wrote essays on religious philosophy, such as "Why Are You a Catholic?." Percy was a native of Birmingham, Jefferson County, and studied medicine in North Carolina, but turned to writing in Louisiana.

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