John Kennedy Toole

Dumskallarnas sammansvärjning är en humoristisk pikareskroman av John Kennedy Toole. Romanen utgavs 1980 postumt genom moderns försorg och belönades samma år med Pulitzerpriset.

John Kennedy Toolewho won a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for his best-selling comic masterpiece A Confederacy of DunceswroteThe Neon Bible for a literary contest at the age of sixteen. The manuscript languished in a drawer and became the subject of a legal battle among Toole’s heirs. It was only in 1989, thirty-five …