Index

Acadian Profile

Adams, Jane Pic

Adler, Mortimer

Allsup, James

Alpaugh, Jerry

Amis, Kingsley

Andry, Stephen

Angers, Trent

Apollo Theater (New York)

Aquinas, Thomas

“The Arbiter” (poem)

Archy and Mehitabel (poetic satire)

Armstrong, Louis

Army. See Toole, John Kennedy: in army in Puerto Rico

Aruba

Auden, W. H.

Bakhtin, Mikhail

Ballard, E. Goodwin

Barranger, Garic

Baudelaire, Charles

Beatrice, Sister

Beats

Becket, Saint Thomas à

Belushi, John

Berlin (Germany)

Bethune, Jane

Bianciardi, Luciana

Bienville, Jean Baptiste de

Bienville, Sieur de

Birth of a Nation (film)

Black Mischief (Waugh)

Bloomsbury Review

Boethius

Boggs, Lindy

Bonner, Thomas

Bourdelle, Antoine

Bowen, Joan Trader

Bozanich, Robert

Bradbury, Ray

Breakfast at Tiffany’s (film)

Bronte, Emily

Broussard, J. C.

Brown, Georgia

Brown vs. Board of Education (1954)

Bryant, William Cullen

Brynner, Yul

The Buccaneer (film)

Buckley, Jerome

Burgess, Anthony

Bus Stop (film)

Buzzy (girl in high school)

Byrne, Bobby

and Boethius

and “downtown people,”

and drinks with Toole and Fletcher

and Ignatius Reilly

and Milton Rickels’s accident

on New Orleans

at Southwestern Louisiana Institute

and Toole at St. Mary’s Dominican College

on Toole keeping his counsel

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s mother

Byron, Lord

Cajuns and Cajun country

Campbell, Joseph

Canada A. M.

Capote, Truman

Carnival (student literary magazine)

Castro, Fidel

Catch-22 (Heller)

The Catcher in the Rye

Cervantes, Miguel

Chaucer, Geoffrey

Cheever, John

Chicago Tribune Review of Books

Citizen Kane (film)

Civil rights movement

Clark, Dick

Clein, Joseph

Clifford, James

Cold War

Coleridge

Coles, Robert

Columbia University. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Columbia University

Communism

A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole)

and anti-Semitism

and beatniks

and caricature

and characters

continued success, popularity, and translations of

and Crusade for Moorish Dignity

and Deaux

decoding

and dialogue

and “Disillusionment,”

and Farrar, Straus and Giroux

and females in book’s saga

and film

and gay party and gay rights

and Gottlieb and Simon and Schuster

and Grove

and Harcourt Brace Jovanovich

and homosexuality

and humor and wit

and Knopf

and literary allusions

and Louisiana State University (LSU) Press

and New Orleans

and New Orleans Review

and Norton

and PEN Faulkner Award

and Percy

philosophical underpinnings of

and plot and meaning

and Pulitzer Prize

and reviews

and sales

and satire

sketching in New York of

and Third Press

and title

Toole abandons

and Toole family heirs

and Toole letter to Fletcher

and Toole scholarship fund

and Toole’s changed outlook on life

and Toole’s expectations

and Toole’s identity, sense of self, and pride

and Toole’s mother

and Toole’s suicide

writing at St. Mary’s Dominican College of

writing in army in Puerto Rico of

The Conqueror Worm

Conrad, Joseph

Crosby, Bing

Crowther, Bosley

Cuba

Dalferes, Clayelle

Davies, Terrence

Davis, Miles

de Russy, Candace

Deaux, George

Delta Tau Delta

DeMille, Cecil B.

Diament, Elise Trader

Dichmann, Mary

Dickens, Charles

as influence

study of

Dickinson, Emily

Dietrich, Emilie “Russ,”

See also Griffin, Emilie

DiMaggio, Joe

“Disillusionment” (short story)

Domino, Fats

Donadio, Candida

Dreiser, Theodore

Ducoing, Arthur

Ducoing, George

Ducoing, James

Ducoing, Jean François

Eliot, T. S.

Ellen (romantic letter writer)

Evangeline (poem)

Evanier, David

Exit (Deaux)

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Farr, Dave

Faulkner, William

Faust, Rhoda

Faye, Frances

Fellini

Fletcher, Joel

and drinks with Toole and Byrne

and Ignatius Rising

and Ken and Thelma

and Kennedy

and Myrna Minkoff

and New York

in Paris

and Purdy

and Snyder

at Southwestern Louisiana Institute

Thelma Toole’s banishing of

on Toole as indigenous New Orleanean

and Toole at Hunter College

and Toole at St. Mary’s Dominican College

and Toole in army

and Toole’s alleged homosexuality

and Toole’s home in Lafayette

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s visit home from army

and trip to New Orleans with Toole (1960)

and Waugh

Fogle, Richard

Foote, Alvin

For Whom the Bell Tolls

Friedman, Bruce Jay

Friedman, Ellen R.

Frontain, Raymond-Jean

Geiser, John

Ginsberg, Allen

Gottlieb, Robert

and correspondence with Toole

critiques by

and “cult of editing,”

and Deaux

decision against Confederacy

and emotional investment of writers

and figures in saga

likely fatigue and grumbling of

and meeting with Toole

moves to Knopf

suggests Toole work on another novel

Thelma Toole’s vicious public derision of

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s submission

and Toole’s suicide

vilification of

Gover, Robert

Graham, Billy

Great Depression

Greco, Cyrus

Gregory, Angela

Griffin, Emilie

Griffin, William

Guerin, Pam

Guibet, Doonie

Gwyn, Jane Stickney

Gwynn, Jane

Hall, Martha

Hantel, John

Hardin, Michael

Hardy, Deborah George

Hardy, Oliver

Hawthorne, Nathaniel

Hearst Castle

Heller, Joseph

Hemingway, Ernest

Hepburn, Audrey

Herriman, George

Hines, Joe

Hippies

Holditch, Kenneth

Hollander, John

Hoover, Herbert

Horizon Magazine

Hosli, Marion Toole

Howard, Barbara Trader

Howl (poem)

The Hullabaloo (student newspaper)

The Humanization of Eddie Cement (Deaux)

Hunter College

and Kerouac

and Khrushchev

and Toole

and Wieler

Hurricane Betsy

Hurricane Camille

Ignatius Rising: The Life of John Kennedy Toole (Nevils and Hardy)

Jackson, Andrew

Johnson, Lyndon

Jollett, Ann

Joyce, James

Judaism

Junior Variety Performers

Kafka

Kaplan, Fred

Kefauver, Estes

Ken and Thelma (Fletcher)

Kennedy, Jacqueline

Kennedy, John F.

Kerouac, Jack

Keyes, Frances Parkinson

Khrushchev, Nikita

“Kiddish” (poem)

Kirkus Reviews

KKK

Korda, Michael

Kramer, Scott

Krazy Kat and Ignatz (comic)

Kubach, David

and A Confederacy of Dunces

and Morter suicide attempt

and Salinas

and satire and humor

and tonsillitis

and Toole’s final journey and suicide

and Toole’s life in army

and Toole’s mental illness

in Wisconsin

La Madrid, Captain Gil de

Lady Chatterly’s Lover

Lafayette, Louisiana. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)

Lafitte, Jean

Lafranz, Ruth

Laird, Cary

and Brynner

engagement of

and high school years with Toole

and party in Lafayette

and Toole’s alleged homosexuality

and Toole’s final journey and suicide

and trip to New York with Toole

and typescript of Confederacy

Laird, Lynda

Lanterns on the Levee (Percy)

Lask, Thomas

Lee, Harper

Leighton, H. Vernon

Lennon, John

Lewis, Jerry Lee

Liebling, A. J.

Long, Huey

Longfellow, Henry Wadsworth

Longhair, Professor

Loren, Sofia

Lovecraft, H. P.

Luft, Kerry

Lumiansky, Robert

Lyly, John

Mabley, “Moms,”

MacArthur, General Douglas

Macbeth (play)

Magnani, Anna

Malcolm (Purdy)

Mallord

Mamalakis, Mario

Manson, Charles

Marquis, Don

Marx, Harpo

Mathews, Beulah

Matson, Harold

Matson, M. P.

Miller, Mrs. Edgar Grim

Mitchell, Margaret

Mmahat, John

Monroe, Marilyn

Montagu, Ashley

Montgomery, Elisabeth

Moore, Anthony (Tony)

Morgan, Elmore, Jr.

Morrison, Toni

Morter, Bill

Morter, Bob

Moviegoer (Percy)

Nelson, Sydney

Nelson, William

The Neon Bible (Toole)

and character, dialogue, and narrator

and Faust

and film

and Grove

and homosexuality

inspiration for

plot

and publication

and reviews

and Toole family heirs

and Toole’s mother

and writing contest

Nevils, René Pol

New Orleans

and alcohol

and American heartland

Battle of

capturing essence of

and culture

dialect

and “Disillusionment,”

and ethnicity and race

French Market

French Quarter

and graves and death

and Hurricane Betsy

and jazz

and Mardi Gras

and The Neon Bible

Ninth Ward

and people and characters

prior history and at Toole’s birth

renaissance of

and rock and roll

and Toole’s ancestors

Uptown

See also A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole): and New Orleans; Toole, John Kennedy: and New Orleans’ attraction and fascination; Toole, John Kennedy: return to New Orleans and life with parents

New Orleans Review

New York. See Toole, John Kennedy: and New York City’s attraction, fascination, and repellency

“New York: Three Aspects” (poem)

New York Journal American

Newcomb College

Newman Club (at Tulane)

Nicolson, Marjorie

Nietzsche

Ninas, Paul

Nixon, Richard

Nolan, Paul

Nuclear weapons

O’Connel, Michael

O’Connor, Flannery

On the Road (Kerouac)

One Hundred Dollar Misunderstanding (Gover)

Orfila, Mary

Ortiz, Sergeant Jose

Oswald, Lee Harvey

Palumbo, Carmine

Paris Review

Parker, Robert

People (magazine)

Percy, Bunt

Percy, Walter

and A Confederacy of Dunces

“knighting” of

and silverware

Percy, William Alexander

Phillabaum, Les

Plath, Sylvia

Poe, Edgar Allan

Polites, Nick

and design and architecture

and Faye

and Fletcher

and gay party and Toole’s alleged homosexuality

and Hunter College

meets Toole

and Purdy

and Thelma Toole’s tirades on Gottlieb

and Toole’s ambivalence about New York

and Toole’s desire to impress and arrogance

and Toole’s impersonations and mimicking

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s mother and father

and Toole’s visit home from army

and Waugh

Pop, Iggy

Powell, Charlotte

Prescott, Dave

Presley, Elvis

Publisher’s Weekly

Puerto Rico. See Toole, John Kennedy: in army in Puerto Rico

Pulitzer, Joseph

Pulitzer Prize. See A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole): and Pulitzer Prize

Purdy, James

Rabelais

Raymont, Henry

Reader’s Digest

Reilly, Irene

Rickels, Milton

accident of

and The Conqueror Worm

disability of

and Toole’s final journey

and Toole’s flirtations

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s mimicking

and wife

Rickels, Patricia

and Byrne

and colleagues’ lectures

and The Conqueror Worm

and husband

and husband’s accident

and New Orleans Review

and Purdy

son Gordon of

and Toole

and Toole always being on stage

and Toole’s alleged homosexuality

and Toole’s cheapness

and Toole’s desire to be in New York

and Toole’s final journey

and Toole’s mental illness

and Toole’s mimicking

and Toole’s “season of glory” at Southwestern Louisiana Institute

and Toole’s storytelling

and Toole’s suicide

and Toole’s way with students

Rodin

Roosevelt, Franklin

Rose, Charlie

Ruby, Jack

Rudnicki, Robert

Salinger, J. D.

San Francisco Review of Books

Sansum, Cornelia

Schneider, Nola

Schnobel, Bob

The Second Coming (Percy)

Shakespeare

Shields, David

Shmuel (Tulane graduate student)

Shneidman, Edwin

Sims, Thomas

Sinclair, Upton

Sitwell, Dame Edith

Smith, Marcus

Snyder, Tom

Solomon, Carl

Southwestern Louisiana Institute. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)

Soviet Union

Spencer, Edmund

St. Mary’s Dominican College. See Toole, John Kennedy: at St. Mary’s Dominican College

Stein, Gertrude

The Subterraneans (Kerouac)

Superworm (Deaux)

Suthon, Marcia

Swift, Jonathan

Taliaferro, Kent

Ted (Southwestern Louisiana Institute student)

TeleKids (television show)

The Ten Commandments (film)

Tindall, William

Tomorrow Show

Toole, Harold, Jr.

Toole, John Dewey, Jr. (father)

background and work of

and Columbia contribution

and de Russy

death of

as “downtown” person in Uptown

estate of

and Kubach

and marital problems

mental illness of

and money

physical decline of

and Polites visit

and relationship with son

and shingles

and son at Southwestern Louisiana Institute

and son in high school

and son’s birth

and son’s study of engineering at Tulane

and son’s suicide

Toole, John Kennedy

and acting and theater

and alcohol

ancestors of

in army in Puerto Rico

arrogance and superciliousness of

and automobiles

and banter

and Beats

bigotry of

birth of

brilliance and intelligence of

and British literature

and character and dialogue

at Columbia University

comical energy of

and comics and cartoons

complexity of

curiosity of

and dancing

“dark streak” in

depression, remoteness, detachment, and distance of

devotion to mother of

and dialect

drive to achieve greatness of

and east coast trip (1954)

and ego and insecurity

and exaggeration

and father’s mental illness

and females in literature and life

final journey of

forms of name used by

and frustrations and disappointments as writer

and girls and women

and Haspel Brothers job

in high school

and homosexuality

humor and wit of

at Hunter College (See Hunter College: and Toole)

and impersonations and mimicking

and Kennedy assassination

in kindergarten and grade school

and liberalism and political sensibilities

and literary criticism

literary influences on

master’s thesis of

mental illness of

and Mississippi visit (1954)

and money

and Monroe

and Morter suicide attempt

and mother’s musical talents

and mother’s stifling, dominance, protectiveness, and narcissism

narrative voice in letters of

nervous breakdown of

and New Orleans’ attraction and fascination

and New York City’s attraction, fascination, and repellency

and observations of people

as one hit wonder

and other biographies

Papers at Tulane of

paranoia of

and patriotism and government

and philosophy and pragmatism

poetry of

and pranks

relationship with father

and religion

return to New Orleans and life with parents

and rock and roll

and satire

scholarship fund at Tulane

sense of superiority of

and sixteenth-century literature

and “sketches,”

at Southwestern Louisiana Institute (SLI)

at St. Mary’s Dominican College

and storytelling and narrative

suicide of

and teaching style and students

and television

at Tulane University

turn toward becoming novelist of

and University of Washington

upbringing of

and Waugh

weight and physique of

and women in society

and Woodrow Wilson National Fellowship

See also A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole); The Neon Bible (Toole)

Toole, Thelma (mother)

and abandoned biography and collection of academic papers of son

anti-Semitism of

background and work of

and bedtime stories

and Bianciardi

and brother Arthur

and Brynner tale

and Christmas 1967

and A Confederacy of Dunces

coveting of relationship with son

death of

as “downtown” person in Uptown

and fight with son (January 1969)

and Foote

and Guibet

and Harvard

and husband’s death

and husband’s mental illness

and husband’s relationship with son

and husband’s shingles

and Jean François Ducoing

and Laird

and letter writers, visitors, and gifts

and marital problems

and money

and Monroe

and Morter suicide attempt

and move to Cambronne Street

musical talents of

and The Neon Bible

and other biographies

physical decline of

and Polites visit and piano playing

publicity, spotlight, and accolades for

and relatives’ mental illnesses

and religion

and schools in New Orleans

sense of superiority and delusions of grandeur of

and son at Columbia

and son at Tulane

and son’s acting and theater

and son’s birth

and son’s brilliance, superiority, and greatness

and son’s dating

and son’s early childhood

and son’s final journey

and son’s memorabilia, relics, collection of books, papers, letters, etc.

and son’s mental illness

and son’s perceptiveness and observations

and son’s poetry

and son’s portrayal and legacy

and son’s return to New Orleans

and son’s sharing of writing attempts

and son’s suicide

and son’s weight and physique

and son’s writing style

superciliousness of

and Toole family

and World War II

Traveling Theatre Troupers

Tree of Liberty (novel)

Treen, David

Trilling, Diana

Trilling, Lionel

Troilus and Cressida

Truman, Harry

Tulane University. See Toole, John Kennedy: at Tulane University

Ulysses (Joyce)

Ussery, Huling

Valley of the Dolls

Van Doren, Mark

Variety

Vespa, Mary

Vietnam

Wagner, Dick

Waugh, Evelyn

as influence

and Monroe

racist remarks of

Wechsler, James

West, Mae

Wieler, John

Williams, Tennessee

Wonk, Dalt

Wordsworth, Dorothy

World War II

Yardley, Jonathan

Young, Bob

Zelden, Joel

Ziegler, Lottie