A Confederacy Of Dunces

Biographie de John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. He received a master's degree in English from, Columbia University and taught at Hunter College and at the University of Southwestern Louisiana. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces in the early sixties and tried unsuccessfully to get his novel published; depressed by his failure to do so, he committed suicide. It is only through the tenacity of his mother, whose faith in her son's work never wavered, that his book has found its deserved audience. Penguin also publish his long suppressed novel The Neon Bible written when John Kennedy Toole was only sixteen. A Confederacy of Dunces won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.