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John Kennedy Toole

Born

in New Orleans, LA, The United States

December 17, 1937

Died

March 26, 1969

Genre

Fiction

Influences

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John Kennedy Toole was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces.

Toole's novels remained unpublished during his lifetime. Some years after his death by suicide, Toole's mother brought the manuscript of A Confederacy of Dunces to the attention of the novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. In 1981 Toole was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.

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Average rating: 3.88 · 290,361 ratings · 20,121 reviews · 3 distinct works • Similar authors

	A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, Walker Percy (foreword) 3.89 avg rating — 282,734 ratings — published 1980 — 272 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	The Neon Bible 3.76 avg rating — 7,632 ratings — published 1989 — 47 editions	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars
	La conjura de los necios it was amazing 5.00 avg rating — 1 rating	Error rating book. Refresh and try again. Rate this book Clear rating 1 of 5 stars 2 of 5 stars 3 of 5 stars 4 of 5 stars 5 of 5 stars

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Quotes by John Kennedy Toole (?)

“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.”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: cheese, dip, dunce, food, history, writing

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“Apparently I lack some particular perversion which today's employer is seeking. ”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: employment, job, work

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“Is my paranoia getting completely out of hand, or are you mongoloids really talking about me?”
― John Kennedy Toole, A Confederacy of Dunces

tags: absurd, ass, attitude, contempt, curmudgeon, hilarious, intellectual, meatsacks, mouthbreathers, pompous, pronouncements, satire, sheep

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Polls

September 2016 New School Group Read

1982, The House of the Spirits by Isabel Allende, 448 pages

42 votes, 19.6%

1980, A Confederacy of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole, 416 pages

36 votes, 16.8%

1979, If on a Winter's Night a Traveler by Italo Calvino, 260 pages

23 votes, 10.7%

1953, Go Tell It on the Mountain by James Baldwin, 256 pages

23 votes, 10.7%

1969, The Left Hand of Darkness by Ursula K. Le Guin, 304 pages

21 votes, 9.8%

1996, Angela's Ashes by Frank McCourt, 432 pages

20 votes, 9.3%

1969, Master and Commander by Patrick O'Brian, 459 pages

19 votes, 8.9%

1997, American Pastoral by Philip Roth, 432 pages

11 votes, 5.1%

1986, Hatchet by Gary Paulsen, 208 pages

10 votes, 4.7%

1965, The Magus by John Fowles, 656 pages

9 votes, 4.2%

214 total votes

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