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Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. (1907–1995) and Katherine Frances Bennett (1909–1996), a nurse.
Thomas Pynchon (born May 8, 1937, Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, U.S.) is an American novelist and short-story writer whose works combine black humour and fantasy to depict human alienation in the chaos of modern society.
Articles, profiles, essays, and news on American novelist Thomas Pynchon, cover art for his novels over the years, and much more. The best online resource for all things Thomas Pynchon.
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.
The PynchonWiki is a literature wiki exploring the novels of Thomas Pynchon - V., The Crying of Lot 49, Gravity's Rainbow, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day. The wikis contain page-by-page annotations, alphabetical indexes of characters and events, reviews, ruminations, the works...
Jun 13, 2024 · Mapping Thomas Pynchon's Works and Contexts. Introduction to Thomas Pynchon's works and contexts with our blog articles and more!
Feb 16, 2023 · Looming apocalypse. Paranoid conspiracies. Rocket-obsessed oligarchs. As Thomas Pynchon’s novel turns 50, its world feels unnervingly present.
New York artist Zak Smith created a series of 760 drawings entitled, One Picture for Every Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel "Gravity's Rainbow", also known by the title Pictures of What Happens on Each Page of Thomas Pynchon's Novel "Gravity's Rainbow".
Thomas Pynchon has 53 books on Goodreads with 2313205 ratings. Thomas Pynchon’s most popular book is The Crying of Lot 49.
Mar 17, 2007 · Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American writer based in New York City. He is noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University.
