num_pages: 544
description: The first major biography of Walker Percy traces his literary career back to his childhood days spent carousing with Flannery O'Connor, William Faulkner, and Eudora Welty on his uncle's plantation. 17,500 first printing.
language: English
title: Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy
titlecomplete: Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (Chapel Hill Books)
characters: Walker Percy
genres: Nonfiction, Biography
ratings_count: 111
places: Athens, Georgia, Alabama, Georgia, Greenville, Mississippi, Birmingham, Alabama, Mississippi
publisher: Univ of North Carolina Pr