Remember the anonymous auction winner who spent $12,500 on a letter penned by John Kennedy Toole at Sotheby's in New York last week? Well, turns out it wasn't some rich yankee that won the bidding. The Ragin' Cajuns are bringing this piece of Louisiana history back to its proper home. The University of Louisiana at Lafayette identified themselves as the buyers of the 1963 postage from Puerto Rico today, saying they bid on the letter and adjoining lot of Toole artifacts in order to keep them in the Pelican State.

Among the correspondence of presidents and Einstein, a letter written by John Kennedy Toole was on the auction block this morning at Sotheby's in New York. According to the auction house, one unnamed bidder shelled out $12,500 for the Confederacy of Dunces author's missive to the woman who inspired Myrna Minkoff. The 1963 letter Toole wrote from Puerto Rico to Dr. Patricia Rickels, which was the most valued item of a lot that also included a first edition of Dunces and various Toole children's books, was forecast to fetch $10,000-$15,000. Sounds like Fortuna's wheel was middling today.

Zach Galifianakis may want to take note of a Sotheby's auction coming up next month. Among a series of original materials from Pulitzer Prize-winning authors on the block June 15 is a trove of John Kennedy Toole documents that offer a window into the mind of the Confederacy of Dunces author. The lot, which is valued at $10-15K, includes a 1963 letter written from Puerto Rico by Toole to Dr. Patricia Rickels, who is figured to be the inspiration for Myrna Minkoff.

Cory MacLauchlin is on a tour of New Orleans that includes meetings everywhere but under the Woolworth's clock. Over the weekend, he answered questions after a screening of a documentary about John Kennedy Toole. Early this week, the Confederacy of Dunces author's most recent biographer will get the floor to himself with two apperances scheduled to talk about his book, Butterfly in the Typewriter.

New Orleans native Dawn DeDeaux is staging an intervention to fight the dark ages of our times, and The Goddess Fortuna and Her Dunces, In an Effort to Make Sense of It All - a multimedia project inspired by John Kennedy Toole's novel A Confederacy of Dunces is the mandate to spread joyous enlightenment throughout the swamp and great continental wilderness beyond.