Thomas Pynchon
Auteur van De veiling van nr. 49
Over de Auteur
Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York on May 8, 1937. In 1959 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell, where he had taken Vladimir Nabokov's famous course in modern literature after studying engineering physics and serving in the U.S. Navy for two years. He worked as a technical toon meer writer at Boeing for two and a half years. Pynchon won the Faulkner First Novel Award for V. in 1963, and in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), again his symbolism and commentary on the United States and human isolation have been praised as intricate and masterly, though some reviewers found it to be maddeningly dense. With this book Pynchon won the Rosenthal Foundation Award. Gravity's Rainbow, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. Pynchon has also written numerous essays, reviews, and introductions, plus the fictional works Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. His title Bleeding Edge made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. He is famous for his reclusive nature, although he has made several animated appearances on The Simpsons television series. (Bowker Author Biography) toon minder
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Werken van Thomas Pynchon
Gravity's Rainbow [multimedia] 5 exemplaren
Uncollected Works — Auteur — 3 exemplaren
La storia di Mondaugen 3 exemplaren
New world writing : 16 1 exemplaar
Geen titel 1 exemplaar
The Voice of the Hamster 1 exemplaar
Literatura na Świecie, 1985, 7 (168) 1 exemplaar
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Algemene kennis
- Officiële naam
- Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, Jr.
- Pseudoniemen en naamsvarianten
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Geboortedatum
- 1937-05-08
- Geslacht
- male
- Nationaliteit
- USA
- Geboorteplaats
- Glen Cove, New York, USA
- Woonplaatsen
- Glen Cove, New York, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Manhattan Beach, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Aptos, California, USA - Opleiding
- Cornell University (A.B. ∙ 1959)
- Beroepen
- technical writer
novelist
short-story writer - Relaties
- Jackson, Melanie (wife)
Taormino, Tristan (niece) - Organisaties
- United States Navy
- Prijzen en onderscheidingen
- MacArthur Fellowship (1988)
U.S. National Book Award for Fiction (1973) - Agent
- Melanie Jackson
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Inherent Vice in Pynchon Pandæmonium (augustus 2022)
Group Read, April 2019: Vineland in 1001 Books to read before you die (mei 2019)
The Crying of Lot 49 in Someone explain it to me... (maart 2017)
Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan in Club Read 2013 (juni 2013)
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