John Kennedy Toole

John Kennedy Toole

male, deceased (1969)
from New Orleans, Tulane University alumni, novelist, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, Pulitzer Prize for Fiction winner, committed suicide…UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, Louisiana writer, A Confederacy of Dunces
John Kennedy Toole (December 17, 1937 - March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, best known for his novel "A...
Michael Doucet

Michael Doucet

male, 58 years old
guitar, UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, Creole music, Grammy, Western swing, From Lafayette, Louisiana…Louisiana Creole music, from Louisiana, university of louisiana at lafayette, French Louisiana, Louisiana Folklife Center
Michael Doucet (b. 1951) is a Cajun fiddler, singer and songwriter who founded the Cajun band BeauSoleil from Lafayette, Louisiana. In 2005 Doucet...
Barry Jean Ancelet

Barry Jean Ancelet

male
from Louisiana, Cajun French, Cajun music, folklorist, UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, American…Indiana University alumni, University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni
Barry Jean Ancelet is a Cajun folklorist and expert in Cajun music and Cajun French. He has written several books, and under the pseudonym Jean...
Carl A. Brasseaux

Carl A. Brasseaux

male
Carl Anthony Brasseaux, from Opelousas, Louisiana, From Lafayette, Louisiana, UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, American, Academic…University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni, from Louisiana
Carl Anthony Brasseaux (born August 19, 1951) is a historian of French Colonial North America, and particularly of Louisiana and the Cajun people....
Carl L. Bankston

Carl L. Bankston

male, 57 years old
University of Southwestern Louisiana, Immigration to the United States, Ethnicity, Laos, immigrant, peace corps…UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, Tulane University, San Francisco State University, Southern Methodist University
Carl L. Bankston III (born August 8, 1952, New Orleans, Louisiana) is an American sociologist and author. He is best known for his work on...
David Thibodaux

David Thibodaux

male, deceased (2007)
Republican, Roman Catholic, professor, writer, conservative, Cajun…university of louisiana at lafayette, University of Louisiana at Lafayette alumni, UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, Louisiana Republican, From Lafayette, Louisiana
David Glenn Thibodaux (December 1, 1953 - March 24, 2007) was an English professor at the University of Louisiana at Lafayette, a member and...
Burton Raffel

Burton Raffel

male, 81 years old
The Legend of Alfred Packer, nibelungenlied, Yvain, the Knight of the Lion, Arthurian literature, Perceval, the Story of the Grail, Lancelot, the Knight of the Cart…UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, university of louisiana at lafayette
Burton Raffel is a translator, a poet and a teacher. He has translated many poems, including the Anglo-Saxon epic "Beowulf", poems by Horace, and...
Elemore Morgan Jr.

Elemore Morgan Jr.

male, 78 years old
Louisiana State University, Louisiana State University alumni, rice, gi bill, University of Oxford, Southern United States…Alumni of the University of Oxford, The Maker of Cajun Music, lafayette, UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, from Louisiana
Elemore Morgan, Jr. (b. August 6, 1931, in Baton Rouge, Louisiana) is recognized among the South's landscape artists. His paintings of rice farms...

Glenn R. Conrad

male, deceased (2003)
from Louisiana, writer, historian, Georgetown University alumni, Academic, American…UniversityofLouisianaatLafayettefaculty, From New Iberia, Louisiana
Glenn R. Conrad (September 3, 1932 - June 4, 2003) was a historian of south Louisiana culture, as well as an expert on archival studies,...