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  1. Mar 23, 2016 · There are, too, the great lost notes which the literary biographer in me longs for but to which I know I have no claim. The mother of John Kennedy Toole, author of A Confederacy of Dunces, destroyed his suicide note after reading it, providing conflicting reports as to its contents for the remainder of her life.

  2. An envelope discovered in the car was marked "to my parents". The suicide note inside the envelope was destroyed by his mother, who later gave varying vague accounts of its details. In one instance she said it expressed his "concerned feeling for her" and later she told a Times-Picayune interviewer that the letter was "bizarre and preposterous ...

  3. Jan 5, 2021 · After John Kennedy Toole died, at age thirty-one, the tragedy of his short life was complete. But the melodrama of his literary standing was just beginning. Illustration by Hayden Goodman

  4. A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death.

  5. Jun 1, 2022 · Not much was known about the genesis of Ignatius Reilly, the circumstances that led to his creator’s suicide or Thelma Toole’s campaign to get her son’s book published posthumously.

  6. Mar 26, 2012 · In writing the biography of Toole, it was always tempting to bemoan lost documents like the suicide note his mother destroyed or the manuscript, especially since his letters are so few and many of his friends and family have passed away.

  7. Apr 13, 1981 · NEW YORK -- John Kennedy Toole, who committed suicide at the age of 32, Monday won the second posthumous Pulitzer Prize ever given in fiction for his comic novel, 'A Confederacy of Dunces.'

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