Pynchon

American  

[pin-chuhn] / ˈpɪn tʃən /

noun

1. Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.

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

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Pynchon British  

/ ˈpɪntʃən /

noun

1. 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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Example Sentences

One example is “One Battle After Another,” Paul Thomas Anderson’s latest film that is loosely based on Thomas Pynchon’s post-Watergate novel “Vineland.”

From Salon

Stories multiply like toadstools in forest loam in the fiction of Thomas Pynchon, America’s most devout skeptic of the narrative urge, yet also one of its greatest exponents.

From The Wall Street Journal

When “Even Cowgirls Get the Blues” came out, Mr. Pynchon said that he hoped “it winds up changing the brainscape of America.”

From The Wall Street Journal

In The Times, critic David Kipen hailed Pynchon’s classic style as “Olympian, polymathic, erudite, antically funny, often beautiful, at times gross, at others incredibly romantic, never afraid to challenge or even confound.”

From Los Angeles Times

Controversy at the Smithsonian, a Jazz Age caper from Thomas Pynchon, Rome’s long history and more.

From The Wall Street Journal