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Thomas Pynchon


Born
in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, The United States
May 08, 1937

Genre
Fiction

Influences
Richard Fariña, T.S. Eliot, Vladimir Nabokov, Kafka, Henry Miller, Jac ...more


Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. is an American writer based in New York City, noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent 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 today: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Vineland (1990), Mason & Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006).

Pynchon is regarded by many readers and critics as one of the finest contemporary authors. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Liter ...more

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Average rating: 4.03 · 531,139 ratings · 26,710 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors
The Crying of Lot 49
3.69 avg rating — 81,757 ratings — published 1966 — 130 editions
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Gravity's Rainbow
really liked it 4.00 avg rating — 41,690 ratings — published 1973 — 2 editions
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Inherent Vice
3.77 avg rating — 32,761 ratings — published 2009 — 63 editions
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V.
3.96 avg rating — 22,512 ratings — published 1963 — 77 editions
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Bleeding Edge
3.59 avg rating — 12,205 ratings — published 2013 — 47 editions
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Mason & Dixon
4.10 avg rating — 10,666 ratings — published 1997 — 49 editions
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Vineland
3.72 avg rating — 11,033 ratings — published 1990 — 55 editions
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Against the Day
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Slow Learner: Early Stories
3.52 avg rating — 4,682 ratings — published 1984 — 35 editions
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Entropy
3.57 avg rating — 423 ratings — published 1960 — 2 editions
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“Every weirdo in the world is on my wavelength.”
― Thomas Pynchon
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“If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.”
― Thomas Pynchon, Gravity's Rainbow
tags: answers, paranoia, proverbs, questions, wit
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“Life's single lesson: that there is more accident to it than a man can ever admit to in a lifetime and stay sane.”
― Thomas Pynchon, V.
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Polls

2015 Fourth Quarter Long Read

1978, The Stand by Stephen King, 1153 pages
 
  27 votes, 17.8%

 
  25 votes, 16.4%

1853, Bleak House by Charles Dickens, 1017 pages
 
  16 votes, 10.5%

 
  16 votes, 10.5%

1868, The Idiot by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, 667 pages
 
  13 votes, 8.6%

 
  11 votes, 7.2%

1924, The Magic Mountain by Thomas Mann, 706 pages
 
  10 votes, 6.6%

 
  9 votes, 5.9%

1982, North and South by John Jakes, 812 pages
 
  7 votes, 4.6%

 
  6 votes, 3.9%

1973, Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages
 
  4 votes, 2.6%

 
  4 votes, 2.6%

1920, Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset, 1168 pages
 
  3 votes, 2.0%

 
  1 vote, 0.7%

 
  0 votes, 0.0%

1876, Daniel Deronda by George Eliot, 796 pages
 
  0 votes, 0.0%

152 total votes
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