Commemorated on 2 plaques
Walker Percy (1916 - 1990). Covington resident, where he wrote, among others, Lancelot, The Second Coming, Love in the Ruins, The Thanatos Syndrome, The Last Gentleman, and The Moviegoer, which won the National Book Award for fiction. Co-founder Fellowship of Southern Writers, graduate of the University of North Carolina, buried at St. Joseph Abbey, 3 miles north.
832 E. Boston Street, Covington, LA, United States where they was
Original Homestead of Walker Percy. Homestead owned by Walker Percy, who was an American author and philosopher. He is best known for his philosophical novels set in and around New Orleans, the first of which, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book award for fiction. Walker Percy along with 21 other noted authors created the Fellowship of Southern Writers.
Old Military Road, Covington, LA, United States where they lived