John Kennedy Toole was born in New Orleans in 1937 and died in 1969. He studied at Columbia University, where he earned a master's degree in English, and was a professor at the University of Southwestern Louisiana and the Dominican College of New Orleans. The posthumous publication of The Plot of Fools, unanimously acclaimed as a masterpiece, has credited him as one of the most extraordinary American novelists of all time. After a tangled legal situation, finally has also published his first novel, The Bible of neon.