Rhoda K. Faust collection on John Kennedy Toole and other materials, 1925-2000.

  1. Resources
  2. View Resource

ArchivalResource

Rhoda K. Faust collection on John Kennedy Toole and other materials, 1925-2000.

http://www.worldcat.org/oclc/86116401

Materials in the collection include scrapbooks compiled by Faust containing photocopies of letters, 1962-1963, from John Kennedy Toole to his parents, and correspondence, 1963-1964, between Toole and publisher Robert Gottlieb of Simon and Schuster regarding possible publication of Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces. Additional materials include correspondence and legal documents, 1980-1986, related to the lawsuit between Rhoda Faust and Thelma Toole regarding publication rights to John Kennedy Toole's first novel, The Neon Bible; clippings related to John Kennedy Toole, Rhoda Faust, and the lawsuit; materials related to Faust's management of Maple Street Bookshop and Faust Publishing; photographs of John Kennedy Toole, Thelma Toole, and Rhoda K. Faust; audiocassettes and a videotape related to John Kennedy Toole and A Confederacy of Dunces; information regarding Toole's personal library; and three coffee mugs belonging to Toole. There is also correspondence with Reid Mitchell, 1982-1985, about the possible publication of his manuscript, Carnivaltime; with Nancy Lemann, 1983-1985, relating to her role as editorial advisor to Faust Publishing; and with Craig Bebinger, who wrote an article describing an incident at the Maple Street Bookshop.

About 1000 items (2.5 linear feet).

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Information

SNAC Resource ID: 8338962

University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill

Related Entities

There are 9 Entities related to this resource.

Lemann, Nancy.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6gf1m7m (person)

Bebinger, Craig.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6ht3g0p (person)

Maple Street Bookshop (New Orleans, La.)

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w68s9j8v (corporateBody)

Faust Publishing

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w67t2gtk (corporateBody)

Mitchell, Reid.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6jh4czk (person)

Toole, John Kennedy, 1937-1969

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6pc3tmz (person)

John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and graduated from Tulane University. He earned a master's degree from Columbia University. He served in the army and later taught at Hunter College, the University of Southwestern Louisiana (now University of Louisiana at Lafayette), and Dominican College. Toole commited suicide in 1969. In 1981 he was posthumously awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for his novel A Confederacy of Dunces. From the description of John Kennedy Tool...

Faust, Rhoda K.

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6fn203h (person)

Rhoda K. Faust owned and operated Maple Street Bookshop and Faust Publishing, both of New Orleans, La. Around 1979, Faust befriended Thelma Toole, mother of author John Kennedy Toole (1937-1969). Together Faust and Thelma Toole, with the help of author Walker Percy, succeeded in convincing the Louisiana State University Press to publish John Kennedy Toole's A Confederacy of Dunces in 1980. Although John Kennedy Toole had committed suicide eleven years earlier in 1969, he was posthumously awarded...

Gottlieb, Robert, 1931-....

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w63n2ccj (person)

Toole, Thelma

http://n2t.net/ark:/99166/w6rn41x7 (person)