Walker Percy was born on 28 May 1916 in Birmingham, Alabama, USA. He was a writer, known for The Second Coming, The Moviegoer and Lancelot. He died on 10 May 1990 in Covington, Louisiana, USA.
In 1976, seven years after the death of John Kennedy Toole, his mother gave a tattered carbon-copy of the manuscript of "Confederacy of Dunces" to Percy. It had been rejected by eight publishers, but he agreed to take a look at it. With his help, the quintessential New Orleans novel, with a foreword by Percy, was published in 1980. It won the Pulitzer Prize the following year.
