John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole (New Orleans, 17 december 1937 - 26 March 1969) was an American writer and teacher. ==Pulitzer Prize[ Edit] == His first book- the Neon Bible -he wrote less than a 16-year-old age. During his military service in Puerto Rico, he wrote his most famous work: Confederacy of Dunces. Kennedy Toole, however, got his manuscript to no publisher sold. He was distraught, among other things, led to his suicide. Only 11 years after his death his mother Thelma Ducoing Toole the book-after intervention of the writer Walker Percy -publish. In 1981got John Kennedy Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize. Of the Confederacy of Dunces were sold over one million copies and the novel was translated into 18 languages.

The story is set in New Orleans in the early 1960s. The central figure, Ignatius j. (Jacques) Reilly, is an intelligent but lazy guy who on his thirtieth still with his mother lives in a residential area of the city. And that is forced by family circumstances to find a job. In his search for work he meets a variety of colorful characters from New Orleans "French Quarter". This figure was even a statue in the Canal Street where the story begins. [1]