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Pynchon

[ pin-chuhn ]
/ ˈpɪn tʃən /

noun

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

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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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