John Kennedy Toole (/ˈtuːl/; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel...
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picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's death. Published through the efforts...
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Lawrence Toole (1832–1906), English comic actor John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), American novelist John R. Toole (1849–1916), industrialist and legislator in Montana...
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The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at the age of 16. The novel is a bildungsroman about a callow youth named David in rural Mississippi...
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W. Kenneth Holditch (section John Kennedy Toole)
research on the New Orleans author John Kennedy Toole, who wrote A Confederacy of Dunces, preparing for a biography. Thelma Toole, his mother, left Holditch the...
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Toole is a surname that may refer to: F.X. Toole (1930–2002), American boxing trainer and author John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), American novelist Annette...
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Stories of John Cheever by John Cheever (1979) The Executioner's Song by Norman Mailer (1980) A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (1981) Rabbit...
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1995. It features suites named for writers Tennessee Williams and John Kennedy Toole, as well for jazz musician Louis Armstrong – all of whose work is...
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to portray Ignatius J. Reilly in a now-shelved film adaptation of John Kennedy Toole's Pulitzer Prize–winning novel A Confederacy of Dunces. He had also...
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directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel of the same name by John Kennedy Toole. The film is about a boy named David (Jacob Tierney) coming of age...
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