Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (1937-05-08) May 8, 1937 (age 87) Glen Cove, New York, U.S.
Education
Cornell University (BA)
Period
c. 1959–present
Notable works
V. (1963)
The Crying of Lot 49 (1966)
Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Mason & Dixon (1997)
Inherent Vice (2009)
See bibliography
Spouse
Melanie Jackson
(m. 1990)
Children
1
Signature
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ˈpɪntʃɒn/PIN-chon,[1][2]commonly/ˈpɪntʃən/PIN-chən;[3] born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist 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 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.[4]
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), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel, Mason & Dixon, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel Inherent Vice was adapted into a feature film by Paul Thomas Anderson in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published on September 17, 2013.
^As pronounced by Pynchon himself: "Diatribe of a Mad Housewife". The Simpsons. Season 15. Episode 10. Fox. Thomas Pynchon (voiced by the real Thomas Pynchon): Here's your quote: 'Thomas Pynchon loved this book almost as much as he loves cameras.'.
^Kachka, Boris (August 25, 2013). "On the Thomas Pynchon Trail: From the Long Island of His Boyhood to the 'Yupper West Side' of His New Novel". New York Magazine. Retrieved December 14, 2022.
^"Pynchon". Dictionary.com. Archived from the original on January 20, 2015.
^"1974 National Book Award winners". National Book Foundation. March 29, 2012. Archived from the original on March 24, 2019. (With essays by Casey Hicks and Chad Post from the Awards 60-year anniversary blog. The mock acceptance speech by Irwin Corey is not reprinted by NBF.)
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ˈpɪntʃɒn/ PIN-chon, commonly /ˈpɪntʃən/ PIN-chən; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex...
Pynchon is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: ThomasPynchon (born 1937), American novelist George M. Pynchon (1862–1940), American...
Crying of Lot 49 is a 1966 novella by the American author ThomasPynchon. The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian...
Inherent Vice is a novel by American author ThomasPynchon, originally published in August 2009. A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California...
accomplished before their aims can be realized. Notoriously reclusive author ThomasPynchon provided the blurb for Mao II. It reads: "This novel's a beauty. DeLillo...
William Pynchon (October 11, 1590 – October 29, 1662) was an English colonist and fur trader in North America best known as the founder of Springfield...
"Where's ThomasPynchon?". CNN. Archived from the original on December 3, 2014. Retrieved September 26, 2014. Glenn, Joshua (October 19, 2003). "Pynchon and...
Vineland is a 1990 novel by ThomasPynchon, a postmodern fiction set in California, United States in 1984, the year of Ronald Reagan's reelection. Through...
Against the Day is an epic historical novel by ThomasPynchon, published in 2006. The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the...
in the 1960s through the writings of authors such as Kurt Vonnegut, ThomasPynchon, William Gaddis, Philip K. Dick, Kathy Acker, and John Barth. Postmodernists...
the AVA, read ThomasPynchon's Vineland, a novel set-in northern California. Pynchon's style reminded Anderson of Tinasky, and Pynchon's notorious secrecy...
In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote The Crying of Lot 49 (1966) by ThomasPynchon Myra Breckenridge (1968) by Gore Vidal The Universal Baseball Association...
associated with postmodern novels, such as those by David Foster Wallace and ThomasPynchon, where digression, reference, and elaboration of detail occupy a great...
Kharpertian, ThomasPynchon and Postmodern American Satire pp. 29–30, in Kharpertian A hand to turn the time: the Menippean satires of ThomasPynchon Mastromarco...
Brodesser-Akner, Claude (December 2, 2010). "Paul Thomas Anderson Wants to Adapt ThomasPynchon's Inherent Vice". Vulture. Retrieved September 25, 2023...
The French Lieutenant's Woman by John Fowles, The Crying of Lot 49 by ThomasPynchon, and Willie Master's Lonesome Wife by William H. Gass. Since the 1980s...
narrative power is matched only by its generosity of vision." The writer ThomasPynchon, also for The New York Times, argued: "This novel is also revolutionary...
Bleeding edge may also refer to: Bleeding Edge (novel), a novel by ThomasPynchon The Bleeding Edge, a 2018 documentary about medical device industry...
120. ISBN 978-1-101-98349-2. Pederson, Joshua (2010). "The Gospel of Thomas (Pynchon): Abandoning Eschatology in Gravity's Rainbow". Religion and the Arts...
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