The Correspondence of Shelby Foote and Walker Percy
Mississippi has produced some of the nation's finest literary voices, includingShelby FooteandWalker Percy. Foote spent much of his career reconstructing the Civil War in a 1.6 million-word trilogy (he was the smooth-drawling storyteller in Kenneth Burns's television series on the conflict). Percy was a philosophical novelist whose work includesThe MoviegoerandThe Thanatos Syndrome. Not only were the two friends, but they corresponded for years, leaving behind a series of letters unearthed by biographer Jay Tolson.  Tolson, the author of an exhaustive book on Percy,Pilgrim in the Ruins, shows that, unlike other Southern writers such asWilliam Faulkner, Foote and Percy always acted as quite decent fellows, Southerners with manners and brains.--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.