poet, noted for his translation of Cervantes's Don Quixote John Kennedy Toole (1937–1969), former professor in 1959; novelist, author of A Confederacy of Dunces Artists in residency Ernest Gaines (1939–2019), writer-in-residence; nominated for the 2004 Nobel Prize in Literature and the 1993 Pulitzer Prize for fiction; author of The Autobiography of Miss Jane Pittman and A Lesson Before Dying Jesse Glass (born 1954), former resident poet See also List of University of Louisiana at Lafayette presidents References External links MLB Amateur Draft Picks who came from "University of Louisiana at Lafayette (Lafayette, LA)" at Baseball-Reference.com University of Louisiana at Lafayette people University of Louisiana at Lafayette people