Pynchon

[ pin-chuhn ]

noun

1. Thomas, born 1937, U.S. novelist.
2. William, 1590?–1662, English colonist in America.

Pynchon

/ ˈpɪntʃən /

noun

1. PynchonThomas (Ruggles)1937MUSWRITING: novelist Thomas (Ruggles). born 1937, US novelist, author of V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1967), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), Mason and Dixon (1997), and Against the Day (2006)

Example Sentences

It projected him into the ranks of the country’s most innovative writers, drawing comparisons to contemporaries like Thomas Pynchon, Jorge Luis Borges and Vladimir Nabokov.

From New York Times

Seidler, who was born in 1937 in Britain, moved to the U.S. in the early days of World War II. He attended Cornell University, where he was friends with writer Thomas Pynchon.

From Los Angeles Times

“It’s hard to imagine that to be the case,” Zarin said, offering another laugh, “but many people live their whole lives and never read Jane Austen or Don DeLillo or Pynchon or Tolstoy. Or anybody.”

From Los Angeles Times

Fictional places and characters from Thomas Pynchon’s great satire are part of Hornsby’s California backdrop.

From Seattle Times

“The Passenger’s” New Orleans setting and colorful characters recalled to mind Barry Gifford’s Southern Nights trilogy and its braided conspiracies reminded me of Thomas Pynchon.

From Los Angeles Times