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- John Kennedy Toole was born on December 7, 1937 in New Orleans, Louisiana, USA. He was a writer, known for A Confederacy of Dunces and The Neon Bible (1995). He died on March 26, 1969 in Biloxi, Mississippi, USA.
- Author of hysterically funny "A Confederacy of Dunces", which was published posthumously in 1980, and was awarded the Pulitzer prize the following year.
- Graduated from Tulane University in 1958, and earned masters in English literature from Columbia University in 1959.
- Son of Thelma Ducoing Toole.
- After A Confederation of Dunces became an overnight success, plans were made to make it into a movie. At one point the two lead roles would be played by John Candy and Eddie Murphy. It proved exceedingly difficult to turn the long story into a workable script and the project was shelved.
- I am at the moment writing a lengthy indictment against our century. When my brain begins to reel from my literary labors, I make an occasional cheese dip.
- Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking
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