Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (,  ;"Pynchon". Random House Webster's Unabridged Dictionary. born May 8, 1937) is an American author. He is part of the MacArthur Fellowship and writes very complex novels with deep meanings. He writes many different types of both fiction and non-fiction. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction

Pynchon is from Long Island, New York, and served two years in the United States Navy. He also got a degree in English from Cornell University. He published many short stories in the late-1950s and early-1960s. After this, he started writing novels. He is most famous for the novels V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), and Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973) from this time.

Pynchon is a recluse, and very little photos of him have been seen to the public, most of which come from the early 1950s, when he was in high school, university, and in the navy. 

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