Summary: “A Confederacy of Dunces” won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction in 1981, some 12 years after its author John Kennedy Toole committed suicide, devastated by failure to get the novel published. Biographer Cory MacLauchlin examines the life and tragic death of Toole, his love of hometown New Orleans, the creation of the memorable character that is Ignatius Reilly, and the book that’s become a classic of modern American literature. MacLauchlin is the author is "Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of A Confederacy of Dunces."
