Thomas Pynchon
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.
Career Journey
Background
- Born in
- Glen Cove
- Educated at
- Cornell UniversityOyster Bay High School
- Awards
- 🏆 National Book Award🏆 MacArthur Fellows Program🏆 William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters🏆 William Faulkner Foundation Award
Trending & Selected Quotes
Trending topics shown first"It creeped him out, the way it just sat there looking so plastic and harmless among the old-time good intentions of all that downtown architecture, no more sinister than a chain motel by the freeway, …"
"Strangely the tumescence began to subside, the flesh at his neck to pale. Any sovereign or broken yo-yo must feel after a short time lying inert, rolling, falling: suddenly to have its hands it cannot…"
"Kekulé dreams the Great Serpent holding its own tail in its mouth, the dreaming Serpent which surrounds the World. But the meanness, the cynicism with which this dream is to be used. The Serpent that …"
"A million bureaucrats are diligently plotting death and some of them even know it."
"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! suicidal brand loyalty, man, deep parabl…"
Works & Publications
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Timeline
1760
Born
Birth1796
Died
Death
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— Jim Butcher": You do not inherit the earth of your ancestors, you borrow it from your children."
— Antoine de Saint Exupéry"The only death I fear is dying ignorant."
— Steven Erikson"Alas! in nature, as in art, we gain only according to our capacity. You cannot put an ocean in a pint pot."
— Flora Thompson"Until such time that computers at least match human intelligence in every dimension, it will always remain …"
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