It’s a 2006 reprint, with Hurricane Katrina no doubt in the mind of Louisiana State University Press, which published it. The paperback copy I bought has an image of the 1927 flood on the cover. He also was also Walker Percy’s uncle and adoptive parent after Walker’s father’s death. However, he led an eventful life, including teaching English in Sewannee, Tenn., at his alma mater the University of the South, serving as a captain in World War I, and helping run the recovery efforts during the devastating Mississippi River flood of 1927. Percy, who was born in 1885, died young in 1942, just a year after his memoir was published. It’s a classic memoir of growing up in the South as the son of a planter in the Delta town of Greenville, Mississippi. Recently, I had the pleasure of reading William Alexander Percy’s Lanterns on the Levee.
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