Pynchon

[pin-chuh n]

noun

Thomas,born 1937, U.S. novelist.
William,1590?–1662, English colonist in America.

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Contemporary Examples of pynchon

Pynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.
The National Book Awards Longlist for Fiction
September 19, 2013
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
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
Chabon, though as referential as Pynchon, has never been one to code his allusions; he flies them proudly.
‘Telegraph Avenue’: Michael Chabon on His Obsessive Novel of Fandom
Josh Dzieza
September 11, 2012
Maybe if I had seen Pynchon again, I could have gotten to the dazzling essence, the inner Pynchon, the true Pynchon!
Encounters With Thomas Pynchon
Nick Romeo
October 5, 2011

Historical Examples of pynchon

Hutchinson says of him: Mr. Pynchon was a gentleman of learning, as well as religion.
The Devil in Britain and America
John Ashton

British Dictionary definitions for pynchon

Pynchon

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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