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John Kennedy Toole's mother, Thelma, was a domineering presence in the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's life, keeping him from socializing as a child and neglecting, after his suicide, to tell any of his close friends about his funeral. Yet Thelma's influence ultimately defined "Ken" Toole's legacy as she tirelessly pushed for Confederacy's publication, pressing the otherwise-forgotten manuscript upon Walker Percy at the LSU press. Fletcher, a friend of both Ken and Thelma, sets the record straight on the chronology of Confederacy's writing and Thelma's role-correcting the "greatly simplified and ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More