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COLLEGE TO SCREEN WALKER PERCY DOCUMENTARY |
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March 14, 2011
GROVE CITY, Pa. – The life and genius of Southern novelist Walker Percy will come to life in a new documentary film showing at Grove City College on March 17 at 7 p.m. in Sticht Lecture Hall of the Hall of Arts and Letters on campus.
Writer, producer and award-winning filmmaker Win Riley will serve as special guest at the screening of his latest work, “Walker Percy – A Documentary Film.” The one-hour film presentation and Q&A discussion to follow are free and open to the public.
Riley’s previous documentary film, “Walter Anderson: Realizations of an Artist,” won several awards and aired on PBS.
Percy first published novel, “The Moviegoer,” won the 1962 National Book Award for fiction. From Southern tales of self-discovery to near-future satire, his novels depict the malaise of post-modern man and the irrepressibility of his soul.
Percy died in New Orleans in 1990 at age 74. As a youth in Alabama and Mississippi, he endured the suicides of his grandfather and his father, as well as his mother’s death in a mysterious auto accident. Percy graduated from the University of North Carolina and earned a medical degree in psychiatry from Columbia University. While recuperating from tuberculosis, he converted to Catholicism and made the “spiritual decision” to become a writer.
Love, art, science and the search for meaning in contemporary life are central themes in Percy’s novels, which also include “The Last Gentleman,” “Love in the Ruins,” “Lancelot,” “The Second Coming,” and “The Thanatos Syndrome.” He is also a founding member of the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
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