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Thomas Pynchon

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American novelist (born 1937)

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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists.

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Thomas Pynchon
said · 2013
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Paranoia's the garlic in life's kitchen, right, you can never have too much.

p. 11

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Thomas Pynchon
said · 2009
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Charlie really has this, like, obsessive death wish! Yes! he, he wants to be caught, processed, put in a can, not just any can, you dig, it has to be StarKist!

p. 119

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Thomas Pynchon
said · 2009
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Everybody here drove around like a dedicated loser, expecting moment to moment to get into an accident.

p. 225

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Awards 4

1988MacArthur Fellows Program
1975William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
1974National Book Award
1964William Faulkner Foundation Award

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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist. He is known for his dense, complex works of postmodern fiction, which are distinguished by their paranoid tone, absurd humor, and references to history, art, science, and popular culture. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest American novelists. Pynchon is notoriously reclusive. Few photographs of him have been published, and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s.

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United States
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Dates
Born 1937 · age 89
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