WRITER

Walker Percy

1916 - 1990

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Walker Percy, OblSB (May 28, 1916 – May 10, 1990) was an American writer whose interests included philosophy and semiotics. Percy is noted for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans; his first, The Moviegoer, won the National Book Award for Fiction.Trained as a physician at Columbia University, Percy decided to become a writer after a bout of tuberculosis. He devoted his literary life to the exploration of "the dislocation of man in the modern age." His work displays a combination of existential questioning, Southern sensibility, and deep Catholic faith. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of Walker Percy has received more than 729,025 page views. His biography is available in 26 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 25 in 2019). Walker Percy is the 6,151st most popular writer (down from 5,664th in 2019), the 10,433rd most popular biography from United States (down from 10,211th in 2019) and the 778th most popular American Writer.

Memorability Metrics

  • 730k

    Page Views (PV)

  • 43.07

    Historical Popularity Index (HPI)

  • 26

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 1.79

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 4.46

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Notable Works

The last gentleman
Death, Fiction in English, Fiction
1966
The second coming
Fiction, Men, Psychiatric hospital patients
1980
The moviegoer
Fiction, Fiction in English, National Book Award Winner
1961
The thanatos syndrome
City and town life, Fiction, Psychiatrists
1987
Lancelot
Fiction, Married people, Adaptations
1977
Love in the ruins
Catholics, Fiction in English, Fiction
1971

Page views of Walker Percies by language

Over the past year Walker Percy has had the most page views in the with 85,946 views, followed by German (2,615), and Spanish (2,517). In terms of yearly growth of page views the top 3 wikpedia editions are Simple English (100.95%), Polish (97.56%), and Finnish (67.61%)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, Walker Percy ranks 6,151 out of 7,302. Before him are John Logan, Ahmad NikTalab, J. G. Farrell, Pia Tafdrup, Patrick Grainville, and Mieko Kawakami. After him are Maja Bošković-Stulli, John Addington Symonds, Jaime Bayly, E. W. Hornung, Daniel Kehlmann, and Ernest Lehman.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1916, Walker Percy ranks 285. Before him are Peter Geach, Rupert Davies, Lalita Pawar, Bohumil Modrý, Vivian McGrath, and Clare Dennis. After him are Don Keefer, Martha Raye, Chinmayananda Saraswati, Rochelle Hudson, Ruth Warrick, and Daws Butler. Among people deceased in 1990, Walker Percy ranks 288. Before him are Mike Mazurki, David Rose, Jadwiga Wajs, Joseph-Marie Trịnh Văn Căn, Norman Malcolm, and Juan Manuel Bordeu. After him are V. Shantaram, Leongino Unzaim, June Christy, Ed Czerkiewicz, Ralph Bagnold, and Luis Lucchetti.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, Walker Percy ranks 10,433 out of 20,380. Before him are Sterling Price (1809), Debbi Peterson (1961), Bill Plympton (1946), Peyton Reed (1964), Barry Diller (1942), and Birt Acres (1854). After him are Adolph Kiefer (1918), Robert Gordon (1947), George Luks (1867), Kirk Cameron (1970), Warren Kealoha (1903), and Iain Armitage (2008).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, Walker Percy ranks 778. Before him are Louis Sachar (1954), Michael Lewis (1960), Kevin J. Anderson (1962), David Halberstam (1934), Patricia A. McKillip (1948), and John Logan (1961). After him are Ernest Lehman (1915), Jerry Pournelle (1933), Charles Olson (1910), Henry Jenkins (1958), Theodore Roethke (1908), and Robert Creeley (1926).

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