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English: Photo portrait of American author Thomas Pynchon, age 18, as a U.S. Navy recruit in training.Pynchon served in the Navy between 1955 and 1957. The photo was taken in 1955 for a Navy "cruise book" (i.e., a yearbook) of recruits trained at the Naval Training Center in Bainbridge, Maryland.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (/ ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ɒ n / PIN-chon, [1] [2] commonly / ˈ p ɪ n tʃ ən / 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 ...
English: Portrait of American author Thomas Pynchon as a high school senior, age 16, at Oyster Bay High School. The image is cropped from a group photo of the staff of the school's yearbook, The Oysterette, of which Pynchon was the editor.
Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars
Immediate source: Reproduced on page 176 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader—see upload history for unretouched original.
English: * Original source: The Oysterette yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in Oyster Bay, New York. Immediate source: Reproduced on page 176 of Clifford Mead's 1989 book Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, ISBN 0-916583-37-6.
The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by the American author Thomas Pynchon.It was published on April 27, 1966, by J. B. Lippincott & Co. [1] The shortest of Pynchon's novels, the plot follows Oedipa Maas, a young Californian woman who begins to embrace a conspiracy theory as she possibly unearths a centuries-old feud between two mail distribution companies.
What we know: Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest is rumored to be an adaptation of Thomas Pynchon’s Vineland. Leonardo DiCaprio tops an extraordinarily stacked cast. It’s Anderson’s biggest ...