John Kennedy Toole
(1937-1969)
author of A Confederacy Of Dunces and Pulitzer Prize winner (from 1981)
Commemorated on 1 plaque
“In the shadow under the green visor of the cap, Ignatius J. Reilly’s supercilious blue and yellow eyes looked down upon the other people waiting under the clock at the D. H. Holmes Department Store, studying the crowd of people for signs of bad taste in dress." John Kennedy Toole A Confederacy Of Dunces 1981 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
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