Title: A thief of Peirce
First published: 1995
Description: Throughout his literary career Walker Percy read and studied the philosophical thought of Charles Sanders Peirce (1839-1914) in an attempt to re-present in language the world as Percy knew it.

Beginning in 1984 and ending in 1990, the year of his death, Percy corresponded with Kenneth Laine Ketner about the "semiotic" of Peirce. Their letters - honest, instructive, and often filled with down-home humor - record an epistolary friendship of two men both passionately interested in Peirce's theory of signs. This volume of letters provides a rich philosophical perspective for better understanding the fiction and nonfiction of Walker Percy.
Subjects: Correspondence, Semiotics, Peirce, charles s. (charles sanders), 1839-1914, Percy, walker, 1916-1990
People: Charles S. Peirce (1839-1914), Kenneth Laine Ketner, Walker Percy (1916-)
LC classification: P85.P38 K47 1995