Walker Percy - A Personal History

During this presentation, Dave Duty will discuss his personal history with Dr. Walker Percy – which includes over a decade of correspondence and a life-changing afternoon spent with WP that Bunt Percy referred to often as the “Day of the Phantom from the River.”  He will also review and discuss some of the ideas and theories that Walker wrestled with during his non-fiction writing.  Dave firmly believes that Walker Percy is ripe for a Walter Isaacson biography for two major reasons (1) Walter knew WP personally and (2) like Franklin, Jobs, Einstein, and Da Vinci – Walker Percy stood squarely at the intersection of art and science and that WP’s science has not received the depth and breadth of understanding of which it so richly deserves.