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Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon
Born Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr.
(1937-05-08) May 8, 1937 (age 79)
Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
Residence New York City, U.S.
Nationality American
Alma mater Cornell University
Occupation Novelist
Movement Postmodernism
Spouse(s) Melanie Jackson
Children Jackson Pynchon
Parent(s) Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Sr.
Katherine Frances Bennett
Relatives Tristan Taormino

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (/ˈpɪnˌɒn/, commonly /ˈpɪnən/; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.

Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Mason & Dixon (1997). Pynchon is also notoriously reclusive; very few photographs of him have ever been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s.


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