Pynchon
[pin-chuh n]
- Thomas,born 1937, U.S. novelist.
- William,1590?–1662, English colonist in America.
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Contemporary Examples
Pynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.
The National Book Awards Longlist for FictionSeptember 19, 2013
Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.
Move over, Pynchon—the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War.
Chabon, though as referential as Pynchon, has never been one to code his allusions; he flies them proudly.
Maybe if I had seen Pynchon again, I could have gotten to the dazzling essence, the inner Pynchon, the true Pynchon!
Historical Examples
Hutchinson says of him: Mr. Pynchon was a gentleman of learning, as well as religion.
The Devil in Britain and AmericaJohn Ashton
Pynchon
- 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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