WALKER PERCY CENTER AT LOYOLA UNIVERSITY DONATES FIRST BOOK FOR THE WALKER PERCY READING ROOM AT THE MADISONVILLE BRANCH
In honor the memory and achievements of the prominent American author, Loyola University of New Orleans established The Walker Percy Center for Writing and Publishing. The purpose of the center is to foster literary talent and to underscore the vital role that writing plays in education and in life.
Dr. Mary A. McCay, the Director of the Center, met with Dr. Argiro Morgan, President of the St. Tammany Library Foundation, and contributed the first book for the Walker Percy Reading Room planned for the St. Tammany Library under construction in Madisonville. The book, compiled by Linda Whitney Hobson, is Walker Percy: A Comprehensive Descriptive Bibliography, published by the Faust Publishing Company in 1988. It is not merely the first book in the Walker Percy Reading Room. It will be a valuable research tool for the purchase of materials for the collection, as well as for patrons who wish to study Percy's writing in depth.
Loyola is also hosting its second biennial Walker Percy Conference to be held on its campus on October 11-13: STILL LOST IN THE COSMOS: Walker Percy and the 21st Century. Visit www.loyno.edu/wpc for information on the conference and/or to submit a paper to be read at the conference.
Thank you, Dr. McCay, for your generous gift. We appreciate it and will continue to have a cooperative interaction with the Center you are chairing.