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Full Name: John Kennedy Toole
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(1937-1969) Novelist. John Kennedy Toole received his master's degree from Columbia University. He also taught at Hunter College.
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1937 (Unknown) County
John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1937. 
1969 (Unknown) County
John Kennedy Toole died in New Orleans, Louisiana in 1969. 
1969 (Unknown) County
John Kennedy Toole is buried in Greenwood Cemetery in New Orleans, Louisiana. 
1961 New York County
Toole taught at Hunter College in Manhattan, New York and worked toward a doctorate's degree at Columbia until 1961 when he was drafted into the United States Army. 
1980 (Unknown) County
A Confederacy of Dunces
(Pub: LSU Press. ISBN: )
Novel. Winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction. 
1989 (Unknown) County
The Neon Bible
(Pub: Grove Press. ISBN: )
Novel. 
? New York County
Toole received his master's degree in English from Columbia University in Manhattan, New York. 
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