John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)
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John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana on December 17, 1937. He received an undergraduate degree in English from Tulane University in 1958 and a master's degree in English literature from Columbia University in 1959. He started to pursue a doctorate at Columbia, but he was drafted vis mere into the U.S. Army in 1961 before he was able to finish. He served for two years at Fort Buchanan in Puerto Rico, teaching English to Spanish-speaking recruits. He taught at the University of Southwestern Louisiana, Hunter College in Manhattan, and St. Mary's Dominican College. He wrote A Confederacy of Dunces and sent a copy to Simon and Schuster for publication, but it was rejected. His failure to get his novel published and his increasing frustration at living with and supporting his parents brought on a breakdown. He committed suicide on March 26, 1969 at the age of 31. A Confederacy of Dunces was finally published in 1980 and won the 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction. The Neon Bible, which he wrote when he was sixteen years old, was published in 1989. (Bowker Author Biography) vis mindre
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- Toole, John Kennedy
- Fødselsdato
- 1937-12-17
- Dødsdag
- 1969-03-26
- Begravelsessted
- Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Køn
- male
- Nationalitet
- USA
- Land (til kort)
- USA
- Fødested
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Dødssted
- Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
- Dødsårsag
- suicide
- Bopæl
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Puerto Rico - Uddannelse
- Tulane University (B.A.|1958)
Columbia University (M.A.|1959) - Erhverv
- writer
author
novelist
university teacher - Organisationer
- United States Army
- Priser og hædersbevisninger
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1981)
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