The Professor’s Doomsday Clock
MIDNIGHT’S CHILDREN<p>On the 75th anniversary of the birth of the author of the Pulitzer Prize–winning novel <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Confederacy-Dunces-John-Kennedy-Toole/dp/0802130208/"><i>A Confederacy of Dunces</i></a>, John Kennedy Toole’s biographer Cory MacLauchlin, the writer of <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/Butterfly-Typewriter-Kennedy-Remarkable-Confederacy/dp/0306820404/">Butterfly in the Typewriter: The Tragic Life of John Kennedy Toole and the Remarkable Story of “A Confederacy of Dunces,”</a></i> tells us about the warning signs that led up to the suicide of one of America’s strangest literary geniuses.</p>