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Newspaper article from: Chicago Sun-Times Novelist Walker Percy, called "a spiritual...author Wednesday to win the T. S. Eliot...Creative Writing. Percy and sociologist Edward Shils, who won the Ingersoll Foundation's...captured the 1988 Ingersoll Prizes. Percy, 72, of Covington...

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