Patrick Samway, S. J., is author or editor of a number of books focusing on literary criticism and letters, including Walker Percy: A Life; Signposts in a Strange Land; Faulkner and Idealism: Perspectives from Paris; A Thief of Peirce: The Letters of Kenneth Laine Ketner and Walker Percy; John Berryman and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Friendship; and Flannery O’Connor and Robert Giroux: A Publishing Partnership.
