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

Thomas Pynchon was still making fun of it last year in his novel Bleeding Edge.

From The Daily Beast

You, and the book, have now been compared to Don DeLillo and Thomas Pynchon.

From The Daily Beast

Pynchon is the author of several novels and one short-story collection.

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Rather, in his new novel, Bleeding Edge, Pynchon has encountered a subject that resists even his ample literary capacities.

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Move over, Pynchon—the 83-year-old Joseph McElroy is as inventive as ever, and this time he takes on the Iraq War.

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Hutchinson says of him: Mr. Pynchon was a gentleman of learning, as well as religion.

From Project Gutenberg

It was first settled by a brave trader, William Pynchon, and became a city in 1852.

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