Rare copy of A Confederacy of Dunces sold to UL Lafayette at New York auction

admin · 06-19-2013, 05:30 PM

The original manuscript of the great 20th-century New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces may never surface, but a rare manuscript copy with handwritten corrections was purchased earlier this month by UL Lafayette, where author John Kennedy Toole taught school in the late 1950s.

From the UL Lafayette Vermilion:

<blockquote>The UL Lafayette Foundation has acquired a rare copy of a manuscript of John Kennedy Toole?s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.? [ Read more ]

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admin Site Admin Join Date: Mar 2007 Location: New Orleans Posts: 11,971 Blog Entries: 2	Rare copy of A Confederacy of Dunces sold to UL Lafayette at New York auction The original manuscript of the great 20th-century New Orleans novel A Confederacy of Dunces may never surface, but a rare manuscript copy with handwritten corrections was purchased earlier this month by UL Lafayette, where author John Kennedy Toole taught school in the late 1950s. From the UL Lafayette Vermilion: <blockquote>The UL Lafayette Foundation has acquired a rare copy of a manuscript of John Kennedy Toole?s Pulitzer Prize-winning novel, A Confederacy of Dunces.? [ Read more ] [ Subscribe to the comments on this story ]