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	John Kennedy Toole Biography and List of Works - John Kennedy Toole Books
		John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937- March 26, 1969) was an American novelist, from New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Toole committed suicide on March 26, 1969, by putting one end of a garden hose into the exhaust pipe of his car and the other into the window of the car where he was sitting.
		Toole's only other novel is The Neon Bible, which Toole wrote at age 16 and which he considered too juvenile a writing attempt to submit for publication while he was alive.
	www.biblio.com /authors/103/John_Kennedy_Toole_Biography.html (509 words)

	John Kennedy Toole
		John Kennedy Toole (1937- March 26, 1969) was an American novelist, born in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		Toole also spent some time pursuing a doctorate at Columbia, but did not finish because he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961 and served two years in Puerto Rico teaching English to Spanish speaking recruits.
		Toole put one end of a garden hose into the exhaust pipe of his car, and the other into window of the car where he was sitting.
	www.ebroadcast.com.au /lookup/encyclopedia/jo/John_Kennedy_Toole.html (394 words)

	Science Fair Projects - John Kennedy Toole
		John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937- March 26, 1969) was an American novelist, from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
		Toole also spent some time pursuing a doctorate at Columbia, but did not finish because he was drafted into the U.S. Army in 1961, where he served two years in Puerto Rico teaching English to Spanish-speaking recruits.
		Toole committed suicide on March 26, 1969, after disappearing from New Orleans, by putting one end of a garden hose into the exhaust pipe of his car and the other into the window of the car where he was sitting.
	www.all-science-fair-projects.com /science_fair_projects_encyclopedia/John_Kennedy_Toole (631 words)

	glbtq >> literature >> Toole, John Kennedy
		Toole, however, seems never to have fully accepted his homosexuality, and his writing reflects his discomfort with this marker of his own marginalization.
		Toole was born on December 17, 1936, the only son of a couple in their late 30s who had resigned themselves to remaining childless.
		Doting on her son Ken (as John Kennedy was known within the family), Thelma Toole made him the star of the student recitals that she mounted annually.
	www.glbtq.com /literature/toole_jk.html (742 words)

	John Kennedy Toole Information
		After an undergraduate degree from Tulane University, Toole received a master's degree at Columbia University, and then spent a year as assistant professor of English at the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now UL Lafayette) in Lafayette, Louisiana.
		Some friends and family of Toole disagree with suggestions that Toole was a homosexual, including David Kubach, a longtime friend who also served with Toole in the army.
		Ronald W. Bell's thesis, "The Nihilistic Perspective of John Kennedy Toole" (2000, California State University, Dominguez Hills) posits the notion that Toole's novels were a mirror of the author's life and reflect a bleak view of human existence, that Toole felt a despair over the human condition.
	www.bookrags.com /wiki/John_Kennedy_Toole (715 words)

	John Kennedy Toole at AllExperts
		John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
		Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and the book has sold more than 1.5 million copies in 18 languages.
		Toole's only other novel is The Neon Bible, which he wrote at age 16 and considered too juvenile a writing attempt to submit for publication while he was alive.
	en.allexperts.com /e/j/jo/john_kennedy_toole.htm (823 words)

	John Kennedy Toole Information
		Toole's childhood in Uptown New Orleans was rather sheltered, dominated by his mother Thelma Ducoing Toole who seldom let her only child play with other children, explaining to everyone that her son was a genius.
		Toole committed suicide on March 26, 1969, after disappearing from New Orleans, by putting one end of a garden hose into the exhaust pipe of his car and the other into the window of the car in which he was sitting.
		Toole, and his novel, posthumously won a Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1981).
	www.bookrags.com /John_Kennedy_Toole (715 words)

	DNK Amazon Store :: Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole
		The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters—Ignatius J. Reilly.
		In the singular case of John Kennedy Toole this is simply not possible, for after his death at his own hand something of his spark animated his eccentric and marginally functional mother to ceaselessly seek recognition of his work and get "Confederacy of Dunces" into print.
		Toole wrote one other novel, also excellent, "The Neon Bible." Because of the unique inheritance laws of Louisiana, the publication of this novel was delayed by Toole's squabbling heirs on his father and mother's sides.
	www.entertainmentcareers.net /book/ProductDetails.aspx?asin=0807126802 (993 words)

	John Kennedy Toole - Picture - MSN Encarta
		John Kennedy Toole - Picture - MSN Encarta
		Winner of the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, John Kennedy Toole committed suicide in 1969 when he could not find a publisher for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.
		A comic portrayal of people struggling to adapt to modern life in New Orleans, Louisiana, the novel was published posthumously in 1980, due to the persistent efforts of his mother, Thelma.
	encarta.msn.com /media_461521338/John_Kennedy_Toole.html (68 words)

	Amazon.com: A Confederacy of Dunces: Books: John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Toole's prose is energetic, and his talent, had it matured, may have produced a masterpiece.
		The author, John Kennedy Toole, committed suicide in 1969, and his mother found the hand-written manuscript in her son's papers.
		Toole not only captures the wild array of accents typical of the city, he captures the soul of the city iself, New Orleans as it existed in the world before Hurricane Katrina altered it forever, a portrait that is now poignant for the fact that what has been may never come again.
	www.amazon.com /Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0807106577 (2704 words)

	Amazon.co.uk: Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole: Books: Rene Pol Nevils,Deborah George Hardy (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		John Kennedy Toole is revealed to have been many things: a mollycoddled only child; an academic prodigy; a soul tortured by conflicting feelings for his mother and about his sexual identity; and a fun-loving master of mimicry.
		Toole's mother Thelma is reflected in all her fascinating and irritating dysfunction, and receives due credit for bringing her son's novel to its enthusiastic readership, even as her contribution to his suicidal state of mind is pondered.
		Her influence on Toole is discussed, as is the effect of Toole's social milieu in New Orleans.
	www.amazon.co.uk /Ignatius-Rising-Life-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0807126802 (1163 words)

	Biography: John F. Kennedy
		Kennedy was the youngest man elected President and the youngest to die.
		Kennedy, and their party arrived at Love Field, Dallas, Tex. Behind them was the first day of a Texas trip planned 5 months before by the President, Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson, and John B. Connally, Jr., Governor of Texas.
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	www.jfk-fr.com /en/bio_15.php (662 words)

	GradeSaver: ClassicNote: Biography of John Kennedy Toole
		John Kennedy Toole was born on December 17, 1937, and he grew up in New Orleans, Louisiana.
		His mother, Thelma Ducoing Toole, was a dominating woman who, convinced that her son was a genius, sheltered him and rarely let him play with other children.
		Toole left a suicide note, but his mother destroyed it after his death, and there are conflicting reports about its contents.
	www.gradesaver.com /classicnotes/authors/about_john_toole.html (524 words)

	Buy.com - A Confederacy of Dunces : John Kennedy Toole : ISBN 9780807130087
		Now, for the first time, John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece is available in a large print edition.
		As its characters burst into life, they leave the region and literature forever changed by their presence-Ignatius and his mother; Miss Trixie, the octogenarian assistant accountant at Levi Pants; inept, wan Patrolman Mancuso; Darlene, the Bourbon Street stripper with a penchant for poultry; Jones the jivecat in spaceage dark glasses.
		Toole's masterpiece "A Confederacy of Dunces" was published posthumously, after the author committed suicide in large part due to his frustration in getting his work published.
	www.buy.com /prod/a_confederacy_of_dunces/q/loc/106/print/1/36413315.html (474 words)

	Toole, John Kennedy in general - Printed Books Shopping at dooyoo.co.uk
		It's a joke that might have its origins in the tale of John Kennedy Toole - but not the crap bit though, because this guy was a genius...
		On March 26th, 1969, John Kennedy Toole drove to a secluded spot near Biloxi, Mississippi, connected a length of garden hose-pipe to the exhaust of his car, and left the world behind.
		Entitled 'A Confederacy of Dunces';, Toole had written it while he was with the army in Puerto Rico, teaching English to new recruits.
	www.dooyoo.co.uk /printed-books/toole-john-kennedy-in-general (248 words)

	Amazon.ca: Confederacy of Dunces: Books: John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		In many instances Toole will jump between a third person point of view subjective to different characters, or a objective point of view depicting the seen from many angles making the absurdity of the happenings or the actions and words of our hero Ignatius J. Riely painfully clear.
		DOGWOOD is almost the continuation of Toole's legacy and is somewhat of a cross between Toole and Truman Capote.
		Toole also captures the lunacy of life in New Orleans as it is rarely shown in novels and films of the shallow, stereotypical "Big Easy" variety: its innumerable quirks, ethnic groups, neighborhoods and accents are depicted in lush detail with only slight exaggeration.
	www.amazon.ca /Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0517122707 (1861 words)

	JOHN KENNEDY TOOLE - BOOK HELP WEB PROFILE
		Thus was the fate of John Kennedy Toole.
		Born in 1937 in New Orleans, he led a sheltered life raised by a mother who was convinced that he was a genius.
		Also published posthumously was a book that Toole wrote in his youth-a book that he himself considered too "juvenile" for publication.
	www.bookhelpweb.com /authors/toole/profile.htm (243 words)

	Lost Soul Companion
		Ken Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937.
		Some scholars now suggest that Ken Toole's disappointment was compounded by many other problems including his domineering mother, financial burdens, binge drinking, questions about his sexuality, and, as if those weren't enough, the early signs of what might have been schizophrenia.
		Ken Toole was brilliant, but he made the mistake of pinning his hopes on an industry in which luck and connections are often more important than talent.
	www.lostsoulcompanion.com /book/B3_jkt.php (1011 words)

	Amazon.de: The Neon Bible: English Books: John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Written by the late Toole at age 16, this novel on its surface has little in common with his Pulitzer Prize-winning A Confederacy of Dunces.
		This youthful novel was the only substantial writing left by Toole, who won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize in 1981 for his modern comic classic, A Confederacy of Dunces (he killed himself in 1969).
		While far from the masterpiece Toole would write later in his life, this story of a poor boy growing up in a small, claustrophobic, closed-minded Southern town in the 1940s, is an astonishing accomplishment for an adolescent.
	www.amazon.de /Neon-Bible-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0802111084 (1084 words)

	A Confederacy of Dunces, by John Kennedy Toole - Book Review - Large Print Reviews
		It was not until after his suicide in 1969 that Toole's mother at long last found a publisher who was willing to take a risk with this blatantly unpolitically correct novel.
		Either way, you cannot help but be amazed by Toole's ability to write in various dialects, and by his witty caricatures of popular stereotypes that comprise the characters that populate this story.
		Toole was an equal opportunity 'poker of fun at' and he made stereotypical references to Jews, African-Americans, women, old men, homosexuals, bartenders, policemen, idle momma's boys, and exotic dancers.
	www.largeprintreviews.com /jktoole.html (825 words)

	John Kennedy Toole
		Toole is most well known for his comedic novel
		The Neon Bible, which Toole wrote at age 16 and which he considered too juvenile a writing attempt to submit for publication while he was alive.
		Due to the great interest in Toole, The Neon Bible was published in 1989 and made into a feature film in 1996.
	www.speakingofstories.org /Author%20Bios/john_kennedy_toole.htm (233 words)

	Amazon.de: Rezensionen zu The Neon Bible: English Books: John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		I make no claim to be a Toole scholar, but htis books leaves me with the impression that his life was troubled since age 16.
		When John Kennedy Toole was 16, on the other hand, he was creating this sad, sweet tale that will charm and delight you.
		Toole wrote only two books in his short life, and what markedly differing books they are!
	www.amazon.de /Neon-Bible-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/customer-reviews/0802111084 (1274 words)

	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		toole's melancholy, his "grotesque realism" (bachtin), the unique feeling of baroque anarchy he has given his hero were too much for the average 1960's mainstream US-editors.
		So John Kennedy Toole, wherever you are, I want to say you did the right thing.
		Upon learning of his overbearing mother and the circumstances of his upbringing I cannot avoid thinking that the two of them are soul brothers, or, that JKT was channeling TW.
	www.stokenewington.net /readinggroup/yourcomments/toolecomments.html (1296 words)

	John Kennedy Toole
		But Toole's greatest achievement is Ignatius Reilly himself, intellectual, ideologue, deadbeat, goof-off, glutton, who should repel the reader with his gargantuan bloats, his thunderous contempt and one-man war against everybody -- Freud, homosexuals, heterosexuals, Protestants, and the assorted excesses of modern times.
		Imagine an Aquinas gone to pot, transported to New Orleans whence he makes a wild foray through the swamps to LSU at Baton Rouge, where his lumber jacket is stolen in the faculty men's room where he is seated, overcome by mammoth gastrointestinal problems.
		It is a great pity that John Kennedy Toole is not alive and well and writing.
	www.levity.com /corduroy/toole.htm (847 words)

	TomFolio.com: by John Kennedy Toole (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-02)
		Toole, John Kennedy THE NEON BIBLE Publisher: Grove Press New York 1989.
		Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces Publisher: Louisiana State University Press Baton Rouge, LA 1980.
		Toole, John Kennedy A Confederacy of Dunces Publisher: Lousisianna State University Press 1980.
	www.tomfolio.com /SearchAuthorTitle.asp?Aut=John_Kennedy_Toole (901 words)

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