John Kennedy Toole (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 and was a big success. He also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he died by suicide at the age of 31.
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- OLID: OL585131A
- GoodReads: 3049
- ISNI: 0000000120282082
- IMDb: nm0867487
- Library of Congress Names: n79102341
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- Wikidata: Q313739
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- John Kennedy TOOLE
- Kennedy Toole John
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