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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 · 524,700 ratings · 26,493 reviews · 58 distinct works • Similar authors
The Crying of Lot 49
3.69 avg rating — 81,688 ratings — published 1966 — 129 editions
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Gravity's Rainbow
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Inherent Vice
3.77 avg rating — 32,727 ratings — published 2009 — 63 editions
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V.
3.96 avg rating — 22,505 ratings — published 1963 — 77 editions
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Bleeding Edge
3.59 avg rating — 12,204 ratings — published 2013 — 47 editions
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Mason & Dixon
4.10 avg rating — 10,660 ratings — published 1997
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Vineland
3.72 avg rating — 11,019 ratings — published 1990 — 55 editions
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Against the Day
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Slow Learner: Early Stories
3.52 avg rating — 4,678 ratings — published 1984 — 35 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

What book would you like to read for the 2017 1st Qtr. Long Read?

 
  66 votes, 27.2%

The Pickwick Papers by Charles Dickens, 801 pages, 1837
 
  39 votes, 16.0%

 
  37 votes, 15.2%

Gravity's Rainbow by Thomas Pynchon, 776 pages, 1973
 
  22 votes, 9.1%

Shōgun by James Clavell, 1152 pages, 1975
 
  19 votes, 7.8%

Lonesome Dove by Larry McMurtry, 945 pages, 1985
 
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  17 votes, 7.0%

Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand, 1168 pages, 1957
 
  15 votes, 6.2%

Sacajawea by Anna Lee Waldo, 1424 pages, 1978
 
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