Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, on Long Island, in 1937. He studied engineering physics for two years at Cornell, served two years in the navy, returned to complete a degree in English, then worked from 1960 to 1962 as a technical writer at Boeing, in Seattle. Since then he has refused to be photographed: the few known photographs mostly date from his youth, and he has never given an interview. He has published nine novels, received a MacArthur fellowship in 1988, and lives in New York.

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• NovelGravity's RainbowThomas Pynchon · 1973Literature