Thelma Toole

Thelma Agnes Ducoing Toole (September 3 1901 – August 17 1984) was mother of author John Kennedy Toole, and her efforts led to the posthumous publication of "A Confederacy of Dunces".Staff report (August 19, 1984). MOTHER OF AUTHOR TOOLE DIES. "New York Times"] Her husband was John D. Toole, Jr. [http://www.tulane.edu/~lmiller/TooleFamily.html The John Kennedy Toole Papers] ]

A lifelong New Orleans resident, she began shopping the book to publishers after her only son's suicide. She eventually showed it to Walker Percy, who assisted in getting it published in 1980. She lived to see the book win a Pulitzer Prize.

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