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John Kennedy Toole

1937 - 1969

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John Kennedy Toole (; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel, A Confederacy of Dunces, won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981; he also wrote The Neon Bible. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. Read more on Wikipedia

Since 2007, the English Wikipedia page of John Kennedy Toole has received more than 1,191,494 page views. His biography is available in 36 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 33 in 2019). John Kennedy Toole is the 2,115th most popular writer (up from 2,253rd in 2019), the 2,657th most popular biography from United States (up from 2,909th in 2019) and the 231st most popular American Writer.

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  • 55.80

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  • 36

    Languages Editions (L)

  • 3.87

    Effective Languages (L*)

  • 3.92

    Coefficient of Variation (CV)

Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Kennedy Toole ranks 2,115 out of 7,302. Before him are D. R. Bendre, Ramón Sampedro, Gaston Paris, Sholem Asch, James Herbert Brennan, and Orderic Vitalis. After him are Consort Ban, Tadeusz Borowski, Dexippus, Maurice Joly, Ed McBain, and Asma bint Marwan.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, John Kennedy Toole ranks 141. Before him are Aslan Usoyan, Carmen Pereira, Ned Beatty, Monkey Punch, Valentin Bondarenko, and Dan Shomron. After him are Tung Chee-hwa, Mintimer Shaimiev, Jay Rockefeller, Waylon Jennings, Francisco Gabica, and Marie Dubois. Among people deceased in 1969, John Kennedy Toole ranks 74. Before him are Mikio Naruse, Adolfo López Mateos, Meher Baba, Léon Brillouin, Michael Lippert, and Claude Dornier. After him are He Long, C. N. Annadurai, Muhammad Siddiq Al-Minshawi, Rómulo Gallegos, Thelma Ritter, and Domingo Tejera.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Kennedy Toole ranks 2,657 out of 20,380. Before him are Kamehameha III (1814), Lars Peter Hansen (1952), Jane Alexander (1939), Monte Melkonian (1957), John Basilone (1916), and Merian C. Cooper (1893). After him are David Baltimore (1938), Lew Wallace (1827), Ed McBain (1926), Edsel Ford (1893), Larry Sanger (1968), and Téa Leoni (1966).

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Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Kennedy Toole ranks 231. Before him are Erle Stanley Gardner (1889), John Grinder (1940), Walter Tevis (1928), James M. Cain (1892), Terry Brooks (1944), and Lawrence Ferlinghetti (1919). After him are Ed McBain (1926), Flannery O'Connor (1925), Siri Hustvedt (1955), Nelson Algren (1909), S. S. Van Dine (1888), and Jacques Futrelle (1875).

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