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The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest reviews of American literary background. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for just two years. Fatigued from Gottlieb's suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a package. Years later he experienced a mental malfunction, had taken a two-month quest across the AMERICA, and finally committed suicide by using an inconspicuous road beyond Biloxi. Following funeral, Toole's mom discovered the manuscript. After many rejections, she cornered Walker Percy, who found it an excellent novel and spearheaded its publication. In 1981, 12 years after the author's fatality, A Confederacy of Dunces gained the Pulitzer Prize. In Butterfly in the Typewriter, Cory MacLauchlin draws on scores of new interviews with friends, family, and colleagues as well as full usage of the considerable Toole archive at Tulane College or university, capturing his upbringing in New Orleans, his years in New York City, his frenzy of writing in Puerto Rico, his go back to his much loved city, and his descent into paranoia and melancholy.
