Butterfly in the Typewriter (49 page)

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

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

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

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)

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

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

“New York: Three Aspects” (poem)

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

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

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

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.

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