After graduating from Tulane, he studied English Literature at Columbia University in New York while teaching simultaneously at Hunter College. Toole received an academic scholarship to Tulane University in New Orleans. At 16 he wrote his first novel, The Neon Bible, which he later dismissed as "adolescent". With his mother's encouragement, Toole became a stage performer at the age of 10 doing comic impressions and acting. She was thoroughly involved in his affairs for most of his life, and at times they had a difficult relationship. From a young age, his mother, Thelma, taught him an appreciation of culture. Toole was born to a middle-class family in New Orleans. Due in part to these failures, he suffered from paranoia and depression, dying 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 in 1981 he also wrote The Neon Bible.
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