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John Kennedy Toole
| born |
December 17, 1937
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| died |
March 26, 1969 |
| gender |
male |
| place of birth |
New Orleans, LA, The United States |
| genre |
Literature & Fiction
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| influences |
Charles Dickens |
about this author
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Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime.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 book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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