 John Kennedy Toole | John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)Includes the names: J.K. Toole, John Toole, John Toole, John K. Toole, John K. Toole, J. Kennedy Toole, Kennedy Toole J., J. Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole ... (see complete list), Kennedy John Toole, Toole Kennedy John, John Kennedy Toole author of A Confederacy of Dunc | 20,775 | 447 | 889 |  (3.93) | 92 | 0 | John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 17, 1937. He received an undergraduate degree in English from Tulane University in 1958 and a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1959. He started to pursue a doctorate at Columbia, but he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 before he was able to finish. He served for two years at Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, teaching English to Spanish-speaking recruits. He taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Hunter College in Manhattan, and St. Mary's Dominican College. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces and sent a copy to Simon and Schuster for publication, but it was rejected. His failure to get his novel published and his increasing frustration at living with and supporting his parents brought on a breakdown. He committed suicide on March 26, 1969 at the age of 31. A Confederacy of Dunces was finally published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Neon Bible, which he wrote when he was sixteen years old, was published in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) — biography from A Confederacy of Dunces … (more) |
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John Kennedy Toole has 7 past events. (show)  Launch for A Confederacy of Dunces Cookbook Club de lectura: 'La conjura de los necios' The Book Cellar Book Club The Book Cellar Book Group meets to discuss A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. Location: Street: 4736-38 N Lincoln Ave City: Chicago, Province: Illinois Postal Code: 60625 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)20-Somethings Book Group C 20-Somethings Book Group Time to lower the median-age of book group participants! 20-Somethings are a group of people who love a good book, a good drink and getting out for an evening to meet new people. This month we will be discussing A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole: A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole’s hero is one Ignatius J. Reilly, “huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, and a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original character, denizens of New Orleans’ lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures Wednesday, August 15th 6:30 - 8:00 pm River Lights Bookstre 1098 Main Street Location: Street: 1098 Main Street City: Dubuque, Province: Iowa Postal Code: 52001-4723 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)… (more)Award Winners Book Club Award Winners Book Club: Wednesday, August 1 from 12:30 to 2:00 Book: A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy TooleLocation: Street: 768 Boston Post Rd. City: Madison, Province: Connecticut Postal Code: 06443 Country: United States (added from IndieBound)All For One Book Club John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces. Come discuss the best-selling, Pulitzer Prize-winning classic hailed by The New York Times Book Review as "a masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue." A Confederacy of Dunces is an American comic masterpiece. John Kennedy Toole's hero, one Ignatius J. Reilly, is "huge, obese, fractious, fastidious, a latter-day Gargantua, a Don Quixote of the French Quarter. His story bursts with wholly original characters, denizens of New Orleans' lower depths, incredibly true-to-life dialogue, and the zaniest series of high and low comic adventures" (Henry Kisor, Chicago Sun-Times). (annelaytonrice)… (more)
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