Percy Family
This is not about the Percies of Northumberland, but about the aristocratic family of the American South.
Books by Percys
Lanterns on the Levee: Recollections of a Planter's Son
William Alexander Percy
(Louisiana State University Press, 1975)
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The Collected Poems of William Alexander Percy
William Alexander Percy
(A.A. Knopf, 1943)
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The Story of The Democratic Party by Henry Minor
The Moviegoer
Walker Percy
(Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1967)
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The Last Gentleman
Walker Percy
(Picador; 1st Picado edition, 1999)
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The Second Coming
Walker Percy
(Picador, 1999)
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The Thanatos Syndrome
Walker Percy
(Picador, 1999)
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Lancelot
Walker Percy
(Picador USA, 1999 (1977))
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The Percy Family
John Hereford Percy
Books about Percys
Rising Tide: The Great Mississippi Flood of 1927 and How It Changed America
John M. Barry
(Simon & Schuster Adult Publishing Group, 1998)
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House of Percy: Honor, Melancholy, and Imagination in a Southern Family
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
(New York: Oxford University Press, 1994)
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Literary Percys: Family History, Gender, and the Southern Imagination, Vol. 37
Bertram Wyatt-Brown
(University of Georgia Press, 1994)
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Walker Percy: An American Search
Robert Coles
(Little Brown & Co (T); 1st ed edition (January, 1979))
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Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy
Jay Tolson
[The University of North Carolina Press, 1994]
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The Percys of Mississippi: Politics and Literature in the New South
Lewis Backer
(Louisiana State University Press, 1983)
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Reviews of books by/on Percys
- Bertram Wyatt-Brown's The House of Percy
- John Barry's Rising Tide
- On The Age of Recovery
- Of the far flung corpus of David Hackett-Fischer
Genealogical Charts
Dr. Percy's genealogical information is available in several charts below
Downloadable Charts in PDF format
Descendants of Charles and Susannah Percy
Descendants of Charles Percy and Margaret
Descendants of my sister Anne Percy Knott
Thomas Percy Line
Descendants of Thomas George Percy, the first Percy born in America, Son of Charles Percy and Susannah Collins:
Will’s, Walker’s, and My Line — chart courtesy of Bertram Wyatt-Brown
Sarah Percy Line
Southern Bastard Line
The Southern Branch of the Robert Percy Line
(chart courtesy of Bertram Wyatt-Brown)
Northern Bastard Line
The Northern Branch of the Robert Percy Line
(chart courtesy of Bertram Wyatt-Brown)
Dent Line
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Family Bios
Percy, Charles
founder of the family who arrived in North Carolina about 1775 and Brit. West Fla. about 1776 via St. Eustatius Island in the Leewards
Dorsey, Sarah
Ferguson, Kate
Lee, Eleanor Percy
Minor, John B.
Percy, LeRoy
on LeRoy Percy, 1860 – 1929 by PBS
Percy, Roy
Percy, Thomas George
Percy, Walker
on Walker Percy, 1916 – 1990 by Hugh Pearson
Walker Percy's typical arrogance appears in this interview of him
and see the Walker Percy Archive for more information about him AND the OTHER Percys
Percy, William Alexander
on William Alexander Percy, 1885-1942 by PBS
