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Novelist first invited me to the Mississippi Delta

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Mississippi Delta

I hopped off the Southern Crescent from UVA, hurried to my Great Aunt Bolling Spalding’s funeral and fell in with other embarrassed latecomers walking behind her casket at the cathedral door. A distinguished, somehow familiar gentleman nodded. At the cemetery, my father introduced: “Meet your cousin, Walker Percy.”

“Chris is a student and newspaper editor,” dad said. Walker surveyed me, offering, “You eastern Southerners should see the western South. It’s much different. I can introduce you to the Hodding Carter family at the Delta Democrat-Times.”

I drove out the next week. Thus began my love of the Mississippi Delta. And Walker Percy.

Listen to the 2014 NPR segment as Chris completes his Walker Percy collection.

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