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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 1,107,187 page views. His biography is available in 33 different languages on Wikipedia (up from 32 in 2019). John Kennedy Toole is the 2,260th most popular writer (down from 1,879th in 2019), the 2,916th most popular biography from United States (down from 2,358th in 2019) and the 257th most popular American Writer.

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  • 33

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  • 3.76

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Among WRITERS

Among writers, John Kennedy Toole ranks 2,260 out of 5,755Before him are John Wilmot, 2nd Earl of Rochester, Claudine Guérin de Tencin, Andrei Voznesensky, Gaston Paris, Vsevolod Garshin, and Rómulo Gallegos. After him are Conrad Ferdinand Meyer, Phan Bội Châu, Jean Raspail, Elisabeth of Schönau, Paschasius Radbertus, and Rebecca West.

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Contemporaries

Among people born in 1937, John Kennedy Toole ranks 148Before him are Trini Lopez, Félix Miélli Venerando, Monica Zetterlund, Luciana Paluzzi, Gundula Janowitz, and John Phillip Law. After him are Baden Powell, Alberto Spencer, Mintimer Shaimiev, Eduard Uspensky, Ratan Tata, and Eduard Streltsov. Among people deceased in 1969, John Kennedy Toole ranks 82Before him are Coleman Hawkins, Carlos Marighella, Peter van Eyck, Max Weinreich, Josef Blösche, and Rómulo Gallegos. After him are Constantin Ion Parhon, Eduardo Mondlane, Ivar Ballangrud, Willy Mairesse, Aleksandras Stulginskis, and André Salmon.

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In United States

Among people born in United States, John Kennedy Toole ranks 2,916 out of 18,182Before him are Betty Davis (1945), William E. Moerner (1953), Jane Alexander (1939), Jackie Jackson (1951), George Mikan (1924), and Melissa McBride (1965). After him are Robert Garrett (1875), Nichelle Nichols (1932), Frank Stallone (1950), George Huntington (1850), Clarence Brown (1890), and Judith Resnik (1949).

Among WRITERS In United States

Among writers born in United States, John Kennedy Toole ranks 257Before him are Theodore Sturgeon (1918), John Edward Williams (1922), Morgan Robertson (1861), Ben Hecht (1893), Margaret Fuller (1810), and Richard Ford (1944). After him are Audre Lorde (1934), Terence McKenna (1946), Jonathan Franzen (1959), S. S. Van Dine (1888), Terry Goodkind (1948), and Neil Postman (1931).