Who helped bring "A Confederacy of Dunces" to print?
Ernest Hemingway
F. Scott Fitzgerald
Walker Percy
Mark Twain
Answer
Walker Percy, a renowned American novelist, played a pivotal role in bringing John Kennedy Toole's posthumous masterpiece, "A Confederacy of Dunces," to publication. After Toole's tragic suicide, Percy discovered the unpublished manuscript and recognized its literary brilliance. He tirelessly advocated for its publication, eventually convincing Louisiana State University Press to release it in 1980.
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