Pynchon

[ pin-chuh n ]

/ ˈpɪn tʃən /

noun

Thomas,born 1937, U.S. novelist.

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

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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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