John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), a native of New Orleans, graduated from Tulane University and received a master’s degree in English from Columbia University. He taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana, and Dominican College in New Orleans. After his death, his book A Confederacy of Dunceswas awarded the Pulizer Prize in Fiction in 1981.
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A Confederacy of Dunces
- By: John Kennedy Toole
- Narrator: Barrett Whitener
- Length: 13 hours 32 minutes
- Publisher: Blackstone Publishing
- Publish date: January 01, 1997
- Language: English
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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“A masterwork . . . the novel astonishes with its inventiveness . . . it is nothing less than a grand comic fugue.”–The New York Times Book Review
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