Question: What occupation did John Kennedy Toole and I. F. Stone partake?

Context articles: A Confederacy of Dunces
The Neon Bible
The Neon Bible (film)
John Kennedy (Australian musician)
Hyatt Centric French Quarter New Orleans Hotel
Jaroslav Kořán
John Kennedy Toole
John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis
Comic novel
I. F. Stone

A Confederacy of Dunces is a picaresque novel by American novelist John Kennedy Toole which reached publication in 1980, eleven years after Toole's suicide.
 Published through the efforts of writer Walker Percy (who also contributed a foreword) and Toole's mother, the book became first a cult classic, then a mainstream success; it earned Toole a posthumous Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 1981, and is now considered a canonical work of modern literature of the Southern United States.
The Neon Bible is John Kennedy Toole's first novel, written at the age of 16.
 Its main appeal is as an early look at the writer who would later write "A Confederacy of Dunces".
The Neon Bible is a 1995 drama film written and directed by Terence Davies, based on the novel of the same name by John Kennedy Toole.
 The film is about a boy named David (Jacob Tierney) coming of age in Georgia in the 1940s.
 His abusive father (Denis Leary) enlists in the army during World War II and disappears, leaving David to take care of his mother (Diana Scarwid) with his Aunt Mae (Gena Rowlands), who is a singer.
 It was filmed in Atlanta, Crawfordville, and Madison, Georgia.
John Francis Kennedy (born John Kennedy 1 July 1958) is an English-born Australian musician and singer-songwriter–guitarist.
 He has been the leader of a number of groups including JFK & the Cuban Crisis (1980–84), and John Kennedy's Love Gone Wrong (1984–88).
 He has a penchant for strong melodies and "heart on your sleeve" pop songs often with country and western influences.
 In 1984 he described his music as "urban and western".
Hyatt Centric French Quarter New Orleans is a hotel on Canal Street in New Orleans, Louisiana.
 A downtown landmark, the building was constructed in 1849 and served as a highly successful department store for more than a century.
 The structure was redeveloped as a boutique hotel, opening in 1995.
 It features suites named for writers Tennessee Williams and John Kennedy Toole, as well for jazz musician Louis Armstrong – all of whose work is associated with the city and the Quarter.
Jaroslav Kořán (January 17, 1940 – June 2, 2017) was a Czech translator, writer, screenwriter, and politician.
 A dissident and signatory of Charter 77 during Czechoslovakia's Communist era, Kořán translated over seven dozen books, mostly by American writers, from English into Czech, including major works by Kurt Vonnegut, Henry Miller, Roald Dahl, Ken Kesey, Charles Bukowski, John Kennedy Toole, and John Wyndham.
John Kennedy Toole ( ; December 17, 1937 – March 26, 1969) was an American novelist from New Orleans, Louisiana, whose posthumously published novel "A Confederacy of Dunces" won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction.
 He also wrote "The Neon Bible".
 Although several people in the literary world felt his writing skills were praiseworthy, Toole's novels were rejected during his lifetime.
 After suffering from paranoia and depression due in part to these failures, he committed suicide at the age of 31.
John Kennedy, 6th Earl of Cassilis, PC (d. April 1668) was a Scottish peer, the grandson of Gilbert Kennedy, 4th Earl of Cassilis, and nephew of John Kennedy, 5th Earl of Cassilis.
 He succeeded to the titles of 8th Lord Kennedy and 6th Earl of Cassilis on 25 July 1616.
 He was a non-sitting member of Cromwell's House of Lords, and was invested as a Privy Counsellor of Scotland on 13 February 1660/61.
 He held the office of Justice-general 1649-1651 and of an Extraordinary Lord of Session for Scotland June 1661-July 1662.
A comic novel is a novel-length work of humorous fiction.
 Many well-known authors have written comic novels, including P. G. Wodehouse, Henry Fielding, Mark Twain, and John Kennedy Toole.
I. F. Stone (Isidor Feinstein Stone, 24 December 1907 – 18 June 1989) was a politically radical American investigative journalist and writer.