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Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole

By René Pol Nevils, Deborah George Hardy
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By René Pol Nevils, Deborah George Hardy
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The phenomenal success of John Kennedy Toole's comic masterpiece, A Confederacy of Dunces, is now legendary, a story that has long beckoned a deeper exploration into the life, imagination, and demise of the writer responsible for one of American literature's most memorable characters — Ignatius J. Reilly. In Ignatius Rising, René Pol Nevils and Deborah George Hardy present the first biography of Toole, drawing upon scores of interviews with contemporaries of the writer and acquaintances of ...

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BiographyPeoples & Cultures - BiographyLiterary BiographyAmericans - Regional BiographyAmerican Literary BiographySoutheastern States - Regional Biography20th Century American Authors - Literary BiographyNovelists, American->20th century->BiographyToole, John Kennedy (1937-1969)