Title: The correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy /
Authors: Foote, Shelby.; Percy, Walker, 1916-1990; Tolson, Jay.
Publisher: Center for Documentary Studies in association with Norton,
Year: 1997
Subjects: Foote, Shelby Correspondence.; Percy, Walker, Correspondence.; Percy, Walker, Correspondence.; Novelists, American Correspondence; Historians United States Correspondence; Southern States Intellectual life; Southern States Intellectual life
Abstract: In the late 1940s, Walker Percy and Shelby Foote, friends since their teenage years in Greenville, Mississippi, began a correspondence that would last until Percy's death in 1990. Their letters provide a rich record of an enduring literary and personal friendship. Walker Percy, winner of the National Book Award, wrote six novels, two volumes of philosophical writings, and numerous essays on topics ranging from the aesthetics of bourbon drinking to race and integration in.
Contents: Master to apprentice -- Adversities and new directions -- Recognition -- The "third half" of life -- Last things.