John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969)
Autore di Una banda di idioti
Sull'Autore
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 mostra altro 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) mostra meno
Fonte dell'immagine: John Kennedy Toole
Opere di John Kennedy Toole
1988 1 copia
Neon Bible 1 copia
Etichette
Informazioni generali
- Nome canonico
- Toole, John Kennedy
- Data di nascita
- 1937-12-17
- Data di morte
- 1969-03-26
- Luogo di sepoltura
- Greenwood Cemetery, New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Sesso
- male
- Nazionalità
- USA
- Nazione (per mappa)
- USA
- Luogo di nascita
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
- Luogo di morte
- Biloxi, Mississippi, USA
- Causa della morte
- suicide
- Luogo di residenza
- New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Lafayette, Louisiana, USA
New York, New York, USA
Puerto Rico - Istruzione
- Tulane University (B.A.|1958)
Columbia University (M.A.|1959) - Attività lavorative
- writer
author
novelist
university teacher - Organizzazioni
- United States Army
- Premi e riconoscimenti
- Pulitzer Prize for Fiction (1981)
Utenti
Discussioni
A Confederacy of Dunces in Someone explain it to me... (Aprile 2021)
1001 Group Read - March, 2013: A Confederacy of Dunces in 1001 Books to read before you die (Marzo 2013)
Recensioni
Liste
Five star books (1)
Allie's Wishlist (1)
Unread books (1)
Catalog (1)
Favourite Books (1)
Urban Fiction (1)
BBC Big Read (1)
Backlisted (1)
Yet another list (1)
New Orleans (1)
Best Satire (1)
Overdue Podcast (1)
Books (1)
USA Road Trip (1)
A Novel Cure (1)
First Novels (1)
Read These Too (1)
hopes (1)
Premi e riconoscimenti
Potrebbero anche piacerti
Autori correlati
Statistiche
- Opere
- 4
- Utenti
- 22,537
- Popolarità
- #943
- Voto
- 3.9
- Recensioni
- 497
- ISBN
- 169
- Lingue
- 22
- Preferito da
- 93