Pynchon

[ pin-chuh n ]

/ ˈpɪn tʃən /

noun

Thomas,born 1937, U.S. novelist.

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

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Examples from the Web for pynchon

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
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|DAILY BEAST

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|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

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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