Pynchon

[ pin-chuhn ]

/ ˈpɪn tʃən /

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noun

Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.

William, 1590?–1662, English colonist in America.

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How to use Pynchon in a sentence

Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.
In Japan, Zima Haz No Zexual Preference|Jake Adelstein, Angela Erika Kubo|September 13, 2014|DAILY BEAST
You, and the book, have now been compared to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.
The Author Of The Summer's Hit Paranoid Fantasy Opens Up|William O’Connor|August 15, 2014|DAILY BEAST
Pynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.
The National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction||September 19, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.
Thomas Pynchon Meets His Match: The Internet|Alexander Nazaryan|September 11, 2013|DAILY BEAST

Move over, Pynchon—the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War.
Joseph McElroy’s ‘Cannonball’ Is the Meta Iraq War Novel|Tom LeClair|July 25, 2013|DAILY BEAST
Hutchinson says of him: Mr. Pynchon was a gentleman of learning, as well as religion.
The Devil in Britain and America|John Ashton
It was first settled by a brave trader, William Pynchon, and became a city in 1852.
Harper's Round Table, June 4, 1895|Various

British Dictionary definitions for Pynchon

Pynchon

/ (ˈpɪntʃən) /

noun

Thomas (Ruggles). born 1937, US novelist, author of V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1967), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Mason and Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006)

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