Article: Mother of Pulitzer Prize Winner Dies

Folkart, Burt A.

Photocopy of an article published in The Times-Picayune regarding the death of Thelma Toole, mother of the late Pulitzer Prize-winning author, John Kennedy Toole. Article states that Thelma Toole died at the age of 82 at St. Charles General Hospital. Article tells the story of how Thelma worked for a decade to get her son, J.K. Toole's novel published. Article includes a portrait of Thelma Toole

Authors
Books
Death & burial
Literature
Newspapers

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969
Toole, Thelma

New Orleans (La.)

Tulane University Digital Library

740.020.011.002

2 pages

text

John Kennedy Toole Papers, Manuscripts Collection 740, Box 20, Louisiana Research Collection, Howard-Tilton Memorial Library, Tulane University

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