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  • Bibliography:
    3 Books
  • First Book:
    May 1980
  • Latest Book:
    December 2015
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Book List in Order: 3 titles



  • Ignatius Reilly, the hero, is a grotesque Gargantua, in violent revolt against the entire twentieth century and what he takes to be the manifold excesses and perversions of the past 400 years. He lumbers through New Orleans leaving chaos in his wake....



  • “A moving evocation of the small-town South in the mid-twentieth century” that “belongs on the shelf with the works of Flannery O’Connor, Carson McCullers, and Eudora Welty” (Orlando Sentinel).   John Kennedy Toole -- who won a posthum...



  • WHAT MIGHT HAVE HAPPENED TO IGNATIUS J. REILLY? In this parody of A CONFEDERACY OF DUNCES by John Kennedy Toole, John Kennedy Toole Jr. plunges Ignatius J. Reilly into a New York City winter wonderland, where our Falstaffian hero inadvertently become...




Award-Winning Books by John Kenned Toole Jr.

A Confederacy of Dunces
1980 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction
1981 Pulitzer Prize -- Fiction


Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ)

John Kenned Toole Jr. has published 3 books.

John Kenned Toole Jr. does not have a new book coming out soon. The latest book, A Cornucopia of Dunderheads, was published in December 2015.

The first book by John Kenned Toole Jr., A Confederacy of Dunces, was published in May 1980.

No. John Kenned Toole Jr. does not write books in series.