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  <name><![CDATA[John Kennedy Toole]]></name>
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  <about><![CDATA[John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel &lt;i&gt;A Confederacy of Dunces&lt;/i&gt;.

Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of &lt;i&gt;A Confederacy of Dunces&lt;/i&gt; to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

]]></about>  <influences><![CDATA[Charles Dickens]]></influences>  <gender>male</gender>  <hometown>New Orleans, LA</hometown>  <born_at>12/17/1937</born_at>  <died_at>03/26/1969</died_at>  
  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[A Confederacy of Dunces]]></title>
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  <published>1980</published>  
  
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  <title><![CDATA[The Neon Bible]]></title>
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      <name><![CDATA[John Kennedy Toole]]></name>
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  <published>1989</published>  
  
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