In 1973, the famous novelist (and sometime America book reviewer) Walker Percy offered this long review of Wilfrid Sheed’s ‘People Will Always Be Kind.’
Walker Percy
Walker Percy was an American novelist and essayist whose interests included spirituality, philosophy and religion. His first novel, The Moviegoer, won the U.S. National Book Award for Fiction in 1962. In 1986, America awarded him the Edmund Campion Award. He died on May 10, 1990.
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From 1974: Walker Percy on the humbling, eccentric craft of writing
Walker Percy: “Writing is a craft like any other. Writers and carpenters had better have respect for the workaday tools of the trade, the feel of the wood under the thumb.”