Thomas Pynchon | |
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Born | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. May 8, 1937 |
Nationality | American |
Alma mater | Cornell University |
Occupation | Novelist |
Movement | Postmodernism |
Spouse | Melanie Jackson |
Children | Jackson Pynchon |
Parent(s) | Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr. Katherine Frances Bennett |
Relatives | Tristan Taormino |
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ˈpɪntʃɒn/,[1] commonly /-tʃən/;[2] 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[3]
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.[4]