Thomas Pynchon

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American writer human novelist postmodernist writer

Thomas Pynchon is a reclusive American novelist known for his dense, complex, and postmodern works such as "Gravity’s Rainbow" and "The Crying of Lot 49."

Aliases (2)

Thomas Pynchon bibliography ×2
Pynchon ×1

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Predicate	Object
instanceOf	American writer → human → novelist → postmodernist writer →
awardReceived	National Book Award for Fiction → William Dean Howells Medal →
countryOfCitizenship	United States of America →
dateOfBirth	1937-05-08 →
educatedAt	Cornell University →
familyName	Thomas Pynchon → surface form: "Pynchon"
fieldOfWork	fiction writing → literature →
genre	historical fiction → metafiction → postmodern literature → satire → science fiction →
givenName	Thomas →
influenced	David Foster Wallace → Don DeLillo → Jonathan Lethem → William T. Vollmann →
influencedBy	James Joyce → Jorge Luis Borges → William Faulkner →
languageOfWorkOrName	English →
movement	maximalism → postmodernism →
name	Thomas Pynchon →
notableCharacteristic	complex narrative style → dense prose → large ensemble casts → reclusive → use of black humor → use of intertextuality → use of paranoia as a theme →
notableWork	Against the Day → Bleeding Edge → Gravity’s Rainbow → Inherent Vice → Mason & Dixon → Slow Learner → The Crying of Lot 49 → V. →
occupation	novelist → short story writer →
placeOfBirth	Glen Cove, New York →
sexOrGender	male →
workLocation	United States of America →

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