Today is John Kennedy Toole's birthday. He was born on this date in 1937.
Sadly, Toole committed suicide in 1969 and was never a published author in his own lifetime.
Years later, his mother found his manuscript for A Confederacy of Dunces and managed to get it published. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, 12 years after the author's death. I've heard it is very, very funny. It is currently on my shelf waiting to be read.
This is off topic but thought you would like this link:
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