Introduction
Toole, John Kennedy 1937–1969
An American, Toole wrote one novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, published fifteen years after his suicide. The novel, which Walker Percy termed "a great rumbling farce," won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize in Fiction.
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