and Toole’s mental illness
and Toole’s submission
and Toole’s suicide
vilification of
Gover, Robert
Graham, Billy
Great Depression
Greco, Cyrus
Gregory, Angela
Griffin, Emilie
Griffin, William
Guerin, Pam
Guibet, Doonie
Gwyn, Jane Stickney
Gwynn, Jane
Hall, Martha
Hantel, John
Hardin, Michael
Hardy, Deborah George
Hardy, Oliver
Hawthorne, Nathaniel
Hearst Castle
Heller, Joseph
Hemingway, Ernest
Hepburn, Audrey
Herriman, George
Hines, Joe
Hippies
Holditch, Kenneth
Hollander, John
Hoover, Herbert
Horizon Magazine
Hosli, Marion Toole
Howard, Barbara Trader
Howl (poem)
The Hullabaloo (student newspaper)
The Humanization of Eddie Cement (Deaux)
Hunter College
and Kerouac
and Khrushchev
and Toole
and Wieler
Hurricane Betsy
Hurricane Camille
Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole (Nevils and Hardy)
Jackson, Andrew
Johnson, Lyndon
Jollett, Ann
Joyce, James
Judaism
Junior Variety Performers
Kafka
Kaplan, Fred
Kefauver, Estes
Ken and Thelma (Fletcher)
Kennedy, Jacqueline
Kennedy, John F.
Kerouac, Jack
Keyes, Frances Parkinson
Khrushchev, Nikita
“Kiddish” (poem)
Kirkus Reviews
KKK
Korda, Michael
Kramer, Scott
Krazy Kat and Ignatz (comic)
Kubach, David
and A Confederacy of Dunces
and Morter suicide attempt
and Salinas
and satire and humor
and tonsillitis
and Toole’s final journey and suicide
and Toole’s life in army
and Toole’s mental illness
in Wisconsin
La Madrid, Captain Gil de
Lady Chatterly’s Lover
Lafayette, Louisiana. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)
Lafitte, Jean
Lafranz, Ruth
Laird, Cary
and Brynner
engagement of
and high school years with Toole
and party in Lafayette
and Toole’s alleged homosexuality
and Toole’s final journey and suicide
and trip to New York with Toole
and typescript of Confederacy
Laird, Lynda
Lanterns on the Levee (Percy)
Lask, Thomas
Lee, Harper
Leighton, H. Vernon
Lennon, John
Lewis, Jerry Lee
Liebling, A. J.
Long, Huey
Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth
Longhair, Professor
Loren, Sofia
Lovecraft, H. P.
Luft, Kerry
Lumiansky, Robert
Lyly, John
Mabley, “Moms,”
MacArthur, General Douglas
Macbeth (play)
Magnani, Anna
Malcolm (Purdy)
Mallord
Mamalakis, Mario
Manson, Charles
Marquis, Don
Marx, Harpo
Mathews, Beulah
Matson, Harold
Matson, M. P.
Miller, Mrs. Edgar Grim
Mitchell, Margaret
Mmahat, John
Monroe, Marilyn
Montagu, Ashley
Montgomery, Elisabeth
Moore, Anthony (Tony)
Morgan, Elmore, Jr.
Morrison, Toni
Morter, Bill
Morter, Bob
Moviegoer (Percy)
Nelson, Sydney
Nelson, William
The Neon Bible (Toole)
and character, dialogue, and narrator
and Faust
and film
and Grove
and homosexuality
inspiration for
plot
and publication
and reviews
and Toole family heirs
and Toole’s mother
and writing contest
Nevils, René Pol
New Orleans
and alcohol
and American heartland
Battle of
capturing essence of
and culture
dialect
and “Disillusionment,”
and ethnicity and race
French Market
French Quarter
and graves and death
and Hurricane Betsy
and jazz
and Mardi Gras
and The Neon Bible
Ninth Ward
and people and characters
prior history and at Toole’s birth
renaissance of
and rock and roll
and Toole’s ancestors
Uptown
See also A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole): and New Orleans; Toole, John Kennedy: and New Orleans’ attraction and fascination; Toole, John Kennedy: return to New Orleans and life with parents
New Orleans Review
New York. See Toole, John Kennedy: and New York City’s attraction, fascination, and repellency
“New York: Three Aspects” (poem)
New York Journal American
Newcomb College
Newman Club (at Tulane)
Nicolson, Marjorie
Nietzsche
Ninas, Paul
Nixon, Richard
Nolan, Paul
Nuclear weapons
O’Connel, Michael
O’Connor, Flannery
On the Road (Kerouac)
One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding (Gover)
Orfila, Mary
Ortiz, Sergeant Jose
Oswald, Lee Harvey
Palumbo, Carmine
Paris Review
Parker, Robert
People (magazine)
Percy, Bunt
Percy, Walter
and A Confederacy of Dunces
“knighting” of
and silverware
Percy, William Alexander
Phillabaum, Les
Plath, Sylvia
Poe, Edgar Allan
Polites, Nick
and design and architecture
and Faye
and Fletcher
and gay party and Toole’s alleged homosexuality
and Hunter College
meets Toole
and Purdy
and Thelma Toole’s tirades on Gottlieb
and Toole’s ambivalence about New York
and Toole’s desire to impress and arrogance
and Toole’s impersonations and mimicking
and Toole’s mental illness
and Toole’s mother and father
and Toole’s visit home from army
and Waugh
Pop, Iggy
Powell, Charlotte
Prescott, Dave
Presley, Elvis
Publisher’s Weekly
Puerto Rico. See Toole, John Kennedy: in army in Puerto Rico
Pulitzer, Joseph
Pulitzer Prize. See A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole): and Pulitzer Prize
> Purdy, James
Rabelais
Raymont, Henry
Reader’s Digest
Reilly, Irene
Rickels, Milton
accident of
and The Conqueror Worm
disability of
and Toole’s final journey
and Toole’s flirtations
and Toole’s mental illness
and Toole’s mimicking
and wife
Rickels, Patricia
and Byrne
and colleagues’ lectures
and The Conqueror Worm
and husband
and husband’s accident
and New Orleans Review
and Purdy
son Gordon of
and Toole
and Toole always being on stage
and Toole’s alleged homosexuality
and Toole’s cheapness
and Toole’s desire to be in New York
and Toole’s final journey
and Toole’s mental illness
and Toole’s mimicking
and Toole’s “season of glory” at Southwestern Louisiana Institute
and Toole’s storytelling
and Toole’s suicide
and Toole’s way with students
Rodin
Roosevelt, Franklin
Rose, Charlie
Ruby, Jack
Rudnicki, Robert
Salinger, J. D.
San Francisco Review of Books
Sansum, Cornelia
Schneider, Nola
Schnobel, Bob
The Second Coming (Percy)
Shakespeare
Shields, David
Shmuel (Tulane graduate student)
Shneidman, Edwin
Sims, Thomas
Sinclair, Upton
Sitwell, Dame Edith
Smith, Marcus
Snyder, Tom
Solomon, Carl
Southwestern Louisiana Institute. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)
Soviet Union
Spencer, Edmund
St. Mary’s Dominican College. See Toole, John Kennedy: at St. Mary’s Dominican College
Stein, Gertrude
The Subterraneans (Kerouac)
Superworm (Deaux)
Suthon, Marcia
Swift, Jonathan
Taliaferro, Kent
Ted (Southwestern Louisiana Institute student)
TeleKids (television show)
The Ten Commandments (film)
Tindall, William
Tomorrow Show
Toole, Harold, Jr.
Toole, John Dewey, Jr. (father)
background and work of
and Columbia contribution
and de Russy
death of
as “downtown” person in Uptown
estate of
and Kubach
and marital problems
mental illness of
and money
physical decline of
and Polites visit
and relationship with son
and shingles
and son at Southwestern Louisiana Institute
and son in high school
and son’s birth
and son’s study of engineering at Tulane
and son’s suicide
Toole, John Kennedy
and acting and theater
and alcohol
ancestors of
in army in Puerto Rico
arrogance and superciliousness of
and automobiles
and banter
and Beats
bigotry of
birth of
brilliance and intelligence of
and British literature
and character and dialogue
at Columbia University
comical energy of
and comics and cartoons
complexity of
curiosity of
and dancing
“dark streak” in
depression, remoteness, detachment, and distance of
devotion to mother of
and dialect
drive to achieve greatness of
and east coast trip (1954)
and ego and insecurity
and exaggeration
and father’s mental illness
and females in literature and life
final journey of
forms of name used by
and frustrations and disappointments as writer
and girls and women
and Haspel Brothers job
in high school
and homosexuality
humor and wit of
at Hunter College (See Hunter College: and Toole)
and impersonations and mimicking
and Kennedy assassination
in kindergarten and grade school
and liberalism and political sensibilities
and literary criticism
literary influences on
master’s thesis of
mental illness of
and Mississippi visit (1954)
and money
and Monroe
and Morter suicide attempt
and mother’s musical talents
and mother’s stifling, dominance, protectiveness, and narcissism
narrative voice in letters of
nervous breakdown of
and New Orleans’ attraction and fascination
and New York City’s attraction, fascination, and repellency
and observations of people
as one hit wonder
and other biographies
Papers at Tulane of
paranoia of
and patriotism and government
and philosophy and pragmatism
poetry of
and pranks
relationship with father
and religion
return to New Orleans and life with parents
and rock and roll
and satire
scholarship fund at Tulane
sense of superiority of
and sixteenth-century literature
and “sketches,”
at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)
at St. Mary’s Dominican College
and storytelling and narrative
suicide of
and teaching style and students
and television
at Tulane University
turn toward becoming novelist of
and University of Washington
upbringing of
and Waugh
weight and physique of
and women in society
and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship
See also A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole); The Neon Bible (Toole)
Toole, Thelma (mother)
and abandoned biography and collection of academic papers of son
anti-Semitism of
background and work of
and bedtime stories
and Bianciardi
and brother Arthur
and Brynner tale
and Christmas 1967
and A Confederacy of Dunces
coveting of relationship with son
death of
as “downtown” person in Uptown
and fight with son (January 1969)
and Foote
and Guibet
and Harvard
and husband’s death
and husband’s mental illness
and husband’s relationship with son
and husband’s shingles
and Jean François Ducoing
and Laird
and letter writers, visitors, and gifts
and marital problems
and money
and Monroe
and Morter suicide attempt
and move to Cambronne Street
musical t
alents of
and The Neon Bible
and other biographies
physical decline of
and Polites visit and piano playing
publicity, spotlight, and accolades for
and relatives’ mental illnesses
and religion
and schools in New Orleans
sense of superiority and delusions of grandeur of
and son at Columbia
and son at Tulane
and son’s acting and theater
and son’s birth
and son’s brilliance, superiority, and greatness
and son’s dating
and son’s early childhood
and son’s final journey
and son’s memorabilia, relics, collection of books, papers, letters, etc.
and son’s mental illness
and son’s perceptiveness and observations
and son’s poetry
and son’s portrayal and legacy
and son’s return to New Orleans
and son’s sharing of writing attempts
and son’s suicide
and son’s weight and physique
and son’s writing style
superciliousness of
and Toole family
and World War II
Traveling Theatre Troupers
Tree of Liberty (novel)
Treen, David
Trilling, Diana
Trilling, Lionel
Troilus and Cressida
Truman, Harry
Tulane University. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Tulane University
Ulysses (Joyce)
Ussery, Huling
Valley of the Dolls
Van Doren, Mark
Variety
Vespa, Mary
Vietnam
Wagner, Dick
Waugh, Evelyn
as influence
and Monroe
racist remarks of
Wechsler, James
West, Mae
Wieler, John
Williams, Tennessee
Wonk, Dalt
Wordsworth, Dorothy
World War II
Yardley, Jonathan
Young, Bob
Zelden, Joel
Ziegler, Lottie
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