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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 Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the ...
1 day ago · 2 min to read. 1981. In Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole painted a definitive portrait of fictitious yet oh-so-lifelike New Orleans characters and won a posthumous 1981 Pulitzer Prize ...
Jul 19, 2022 · From 1981: John Kennedy Toole and the myth of fame. The Editors July 19, 2022. A statue of Ignatius J. Reilly, the protagonist of John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces, in...
Jun 1, 2022 · We reveal the frail father, the narcissistic mother, and how Toole was the dutiful son caught in the eye of a storm. The novel also fills in the gaps between Toole’s struggle to find a...
Mar 26, 2019 · March 26, 2019 at 12:17 p.m. EDT. On March 26, 1969, John Kennedy Toole used a garden hose to pump exhaust fumes into his car. He wouldn’t live to see the success of his novel, “A Confederacy...
Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole, is a picaresque comedic novel set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. By any measure a classic novel in the realm of contemporary southern literature, its chief protagonist is the slovenly and vainglorious Ignatius J. Reilly.
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.
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