One of his earliest works describes the misadventures of a purple knight riding a horse that looks vaguely like an armadillo.
One of his earliest works describes the misadventures of a purple knight riding a horse that looks vaguely like an armadillo. Minor characters in other works include the Learned English Dog, Webb Traverse and Teddy Bloat. His short stories include such works such as "Entropy" and "The Secret Integration," and are collected in Slow Learner. Better known works include one where Dr. Hilarious goes insane while Oedipa Maas searches for Trystero, and another labyrinthine work that describes Tyrone Slothrop's search across Europe for the V2 rocket 00000. For ten points, name this famously reclusive author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow. 
One of his earliest works describes the misadventures of a purple knight riding a horse that looks vaguely like an armadillo.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon 