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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 ...
Thomas Pynchon was the best man. They moved to a small cabin in Carmel, California, where they composed songs with a guitar and Appalachian dulcimer. They debuted their act as "Richard & Mimi Fariña" at the Big Sur Folk Festival in 1964 and signed a contract with Vanguard Records. [10]
Thomas Pynchon, who was acquainted with Fariña while they attended Cornell University together, later dedicated his book Gravity's Rainbow (1973) to him and described Fariña's novel as "coming on like the Hallelujah Chorus done by 200 kazoo players with perfect pitch... hilarious, chilling, sexy, profound, maniacal, beautiful and outrageous ...
Taormino is the only child of Judith Bennett Pynchon and William J. Taormino. On her mother's side of the family, Taormino is a descendant of William Pynchon, an early English-American settler. She is also the niece of author Thomas Pynchon. [3] Her parents divorced before she turned two years old. She was raised primarily by her mother on Long ...
Pynchon is an English surname. Notable people with the surname include: Thomas Pynchon (born 1937), American novelist; George M. Pynchon (1862–1940), American yacht racer; William Pynchon (1590–1662), English colonial settler and founder of Springfield, Massachusetts
Pynchon, the great, press-shy postmodern novelist, will become an open book late next year, when the Huntington makes his papers available to scholars
Rumer Willis and musician Derek Richard Thomas debuted their romance nearly one month before announcing they were expecting their first child. The twosome posed for a series of photos together ...
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.