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