A Confederacy of Dunces

　　This Pulitzer Prize-winning novel has sold over three-quarters of a million copies and continues to earn critical acclaim. The story of one Ignatius J. Reilly, a "Don Quixote of the French Quarter," it is a masterpiece of human folly and tragedy.

　　John Kennedy Toole, the writer of The Neon Bible and A Confederacy Of Dunces. The latter won him the Pulitzer prize years after he committed suicide in 1969 at the age of thirty-two.