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By Patrick H. Samway. 506 pp. New York, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, 1997. $35. ISBN 0-374-18735-5.

The life of Walker Percy follows one of the more unusual and brilliant trajectories to have originated in a conventional medical education. Percy was born in Birmingham, Alabama, in 1916, educated as a physician, and then, just as he was beginning his working life, he contracted tuberculosis, which confined him to a sanatorium for more than two years. Much later, he would joke, "TB is the best thing that ever happened to me." The mordant humor and the truth of this observation are characteristic of the man. With the enforced inactivity of his convalescence, he had time to reflect on . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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