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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: 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.
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
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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 BBC’s iconic 1995 TV adaptation of Jane Austen’s Pride and Prejudice reportedly cost roughly £1 million per episode (about $9.6 million) to make. And it shows. The attention to period ...
The photographer shared that it was movies that first sparked his passion for photography. "The color grading, framing, and the story behind the shots are what made me learn photography." #2