![]() Toole’s book was eventually published, after his mother brought the work to the attention of the author Walker Percy and insisted that he read her son’s manuscript. In 1969, frustrated at his failure to interest a publisher in A Confederacy of Dunces, he committed suicide. ![]() After two years in the army, Toole returned to New Orleans, where he taught at Dominican College. ![]() In 1961, while pursuing a doctorate and Columbia University, Toole was drafted into the United States Army, where he spent his time teaching English, while stationed in Puerto Rico. After receiving a bachelor’s degree from Tulane University, Toole received a master’s in English from Columbia University, and taught at Hunter College and the University of Southwestern Louisiana (University of Louisiana-Lafayette). John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937. ![]()
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