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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and nonfiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For
Gravity's Rainbow
, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon served two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known:
V.
(1963),
The Crying of Lot 49
(1966), and
Gravity's Rainbow
(1973). Rumors of a historical novel about Charles Mason and Jeremiah Dixon had circulated as early as the 1980s; the novel,
Mason & Dixon
, was published in 1997 to critical acclaim. His 2009 novel
Inherent Vice
was adapted into a feature film by
Paul Thomas Anderson
in 2014. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive from the media; few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s. Pynchon's most recent novel,
Bleeding Edge
, was published on September 17, 2013.
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