Some years later, his mother brought the manuscript of Dunces to the attention of novelist Walker Percy, who ushered the book into print. He stopped in Biloxi, Mississippi, to end his life. Suffering from depression and feelings of persecution, Toole left home on a journey around the country. Despite several revisions, Gottlieb remained unsatisfied, and after the book was rejected by another literary figure, Hodding Carter Jr. Gottlieb considered Toole talented but felt his comic novel was essentially pointless. / Toole submitted Dunces to publisher Simon & Schuster, where it reached editor Robert Gottlieb. Both of these experiences were later adopted into his fiction. While at Tulane, Toole filled in for a friend at a job as a hot tamale cart vendor, and worked at a family owned and operated clothing factory. The character was also based on Toole himself, and several personal experiences served as inspiration for passages in the novel. Byrne's slovenly, eccentric behavior was anything but professorial, and Reilly mirrored him in these respects. Toole based Reilly in part on his college professor friend Bob Byrne. It is hailed for its accurate depictions of New Orleans dialects. Reilly, a lazy, obese, misanthropic, self-styled scholar who lives at home with his mother. Dunces is a picaresque novel featuring the misadventures of protagonist Ignatius J. After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he died by suicide at the age of 31. Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime. John Kennedy Toole ( / ˈ t uː l/ Decem– 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.
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