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Walker Percy

1916–1990 · Dates from the Library of Congress · On the Friends’ Local Authors roster → · Library of Congress authority record ↗

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Life and Orange County connections

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Fall 1935 Shelby Foote arrives in Chapel Hill to enroll at UNC Shelby Foote came to Chapel Hill in fall 1935 to register at UNC despite having been turned down, following his Greenville friends Walker and LeRoy Percy. He stayed two years and contributed nine stories to Carolina Magazine. People: Walker PercySearch the index · Carolina Alumni: Shelby Foote '39, Noted Civil War Historian, Dies at 88

People named in the same events

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Shelby Foote 1 entry: Shelby Foote arrives in Chapel Hill to enroll at UNC (Fall 1935)

Indexed works

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Ralph Waldo McDonald papers, 1936.

McDonald, Ralph Waldo, 1903-1977 · 1936

Ralph Waldo McDonald (1903-1977) ran for governor of North Carolina in 1936, and his papers from that year, about 1,100 items in three linear feet, are part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5413. Political cartoons and campaign literature cover the Democratic Party, campaign funds, contested elections, Duke Power and Clyde Roark Hoey, with photographs of the Order of Gimghoul at Chapel Hill and of Walker Percy.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.

UNC

Elizabeth Spencer papers, 1911-2018 (bulk 1999-2003)

Spencer, Elizabeth, 1921-2019 · 1911

The novelist Elizabeth Spencer, 1921 to 2019, left papers spanning 1911 to 2018 with the bulk from 1999 to 2003. Subjects include many American writers, among them Eudora Welty, Walker Percy, Ellen Douglas, Lee Smith and Allan Gurganus, and they cover her Mississippi upbringing at Carrollton and her years on the faculty at Chapel Hill. Part of the Southern Historical Collection at UNC, collection 5145.

Included because: Catalog heading in the UNC record: Percy, Walker, 1916-1990.

UNC

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Records of the time

DigitalNC newspapers: 55 Orange County pages naming Walker Percy Searchable pages from historic Orange County newspapers

Collections and databases

NC LIVE: prepared search for Walker Percy Library card Search NC LIVE for this subject and Orange County. You can change the search terms. Sign in through your North Carolina library to access the materials.
Ancestry Library Edition In the libraryOrange County Public Library Census, birth, death and marriage records, and more, free on the public computers at OCPL libraries

Local help

Rebecca B. Wall Local History Collection, Orange County Public Library The county library’s local-history room at the Main Library in Hillsborough: books, journals, maps, and microfilm of county records from 1752
Local History Help Hours and request formOCPL Local History Liaison Meet with the Local History Liaison at the Main Library, usually Mondays from noon to 3 p.m., or send a question using the online request form

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