1937 - 1969
John Kennedy Toole American Writer
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American Writer John Kennedy Toole was born on 7th December, 1937 in New Orleans, LA and passed away on 26th Mar 1969 Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S. aged 31. He is most remembered for A Confederacy of Dunces. His zodiac sign is Sagittarius.
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| First Name |
John
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| Middle Name |
Kennedy
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| Last Name |
Toole
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| Birthday |
7th December, 1937
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| Birthplace |
New Orleans, LA
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| Died |
26th March, 1969
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| Place of Death |
Biloxi, Mississippi, U.S.
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| Cause of Death |
Suicide
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| Buried |
Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Louisiana, USA
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| Zodiac Sign |
Sagittarius
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| Nationality |
American
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| University |
Tulane University, Columbia University
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| Occupation Text |
Writer, Poet, Novelist
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| Occupation |
Writer
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| Claim to Fame |
A Confederacy of Dunces
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| Father |
John Dewey Toole Jr.
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| Mother |
Thelma Ducoing
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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 in 1981. At 16 in 1954, he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he shelved in the same year, not finding a willing publisher; he later dismissed it as "adolescent". Toole was a successful and popular professor, first at University of Southwestern Louisiana (now ULL), at Hunter College and finally in New Orleans. Having persuaded Simon & Schuster, however, to accept A Confederacy of Dunces, he was unable to resolve editorial disputes. Due in part to the novel's failure, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying by suicide at the age of 31.
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