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Jay Tolson

Author of Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy

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Works by Jay Tolson

Pilgrim in the Ruins: A Life of Walker Percy (1992) 172 copies

The Hedgehog Review Reader: Two Decades of Critical Reflections on Contemporary Culture (2019) 9 copies

Meritocracy and Its Discontents (1900) 3 copies

Too Much Information 2 copies

'Rapturous reception' in AFR, 24 Nov 2006 [review of Kirsch's 'A History of the End of the World'] 1 copy

the wilson quarterly winter 1995 vol. xix no.1 1 copy

The Post-Modern Self (2017) 1 copy

The Cultural Contradictions of Modern Science (2016) 1 copy

Work in the Precarious Economy (1900) 1 copy

Re-Enchantment (2015) 1 copy

The Hedgehog Review: Authenticity (Vol 23, No 3) 1 copy

The Hedgehog Review: America on the Brink (Vol 22, Number 3) 1 copy

WQ, The Wilson Quarterly: Surveying the World of Ideas: Volume XXII (22), Number 4: Autumn, 1998 1 copy

Associated Works

The Correspondence of Shelby Foote & Walker Percy (1996) — Editor — 209 copies, 6 reviews

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Common Knowledge

Other names: Tolson, John Jay
Birthdate: 1948-06-28
Gender: male
Education: Princeton University (AB)
American University (MA)
Occupations: editor
biographer
critic
Organizations: National Book Critics Circle
Awards and honors: National Endowment for the Humanities Fellowship
Nationality: USA
Associated Place (for map): USA

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Works: 13
Also by: 1
Members: 195
Popularity: #112,376
Rating: 4.2

ISBNs: 5
Languages: 1

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Walker Percy Center (Loyola)

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