Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of a Confederacy of Dunces

by Cory MacLauchlin

Book Overview

The saga of John Kennedy Toole is one of the greatest stories of American literary history. After writing A Confederacy of Dunces, Toole corresponded with Robert Gottlieb of Simon & Schuster for two years. Exhausted from Gottlieb's suggested revisions, Toole declared the publication of the manuscript hopeless and stored it in a box. Years later he suffered a mental breakdown, took a two-month journey across the United States, and finally committed...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0306821915
• ISBN13: 9780306821912
• Release Date: April 2013
• Publisher: Da Capo Press
• Length: 352 Pages
• Weight: 0.90 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.6" x 8.6"

Customer Reviews

For the Fans of A Confederacy of Dunces

Very well written and apparently very well researched. the author did not just take the easy target and blame the mother. Toole is so much more. Anyone who has read, A Confederacy of Dunces will find this book satisfying like opening a window. For those of you that are a little older and Southern, or lived in the American South it will definitely refresh your memory about those times.