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Apr 23, 2013 · Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces. Paperback – April 23, 2013. The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history.
Mar 27, 2012 · Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces. Hardcover – March 27, 2012. The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history.
- Cory MacLauchlin
John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime.
John Kennedy Toole ( / ˈtuːl /; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible.
Jun 1, 2022 · John Kennedy Toole teaches an English class to Spanish-speaking draftees in Puerto Rico, c1961–63 while serving in the US Army. During his deployment in Puerto Rico, he started...
Dunces is a picaresque novel featuring the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. Reilly, a lazy, obese, misanthropic, self-styled scholar. He is an educated but slothful 30-year-old living with his mother in the Uptown neighborhood of early-1960s New Orleans.
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