The Moviegoer - Walker Percy
WALKER PERCY was born in Alabama. He received a B.A. from the University of North Carolina and attended Columbia University’s College of Physicians and Surgeons. There, in Upper West Side theaters, he indulged a passion for cinema that would later surface in the tension between movie illusion and everyday reality in his fictional creations. He contracted TB while performing autopsies at Bellevue Hospital and was sent to convalesce in the Adirondack Mountains, where he began the process of becomi ...