Biography
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American author/writer. Upon graduation from CU., Pynchon had many options including teaching creative writing at Cornell, becoming a disk jockey, or a film critic for Esquire. "Gravity's Rainbow" was published in 1973. The year after it shared the National Book Award for fiction with Isaac Bashevis Singer's "A Crown of Feathers". It was also unanimously selected by the judges for the Pulitzer Prize in literature, but the selection was overruled by the Pulitzer advisory board whose called it "unreadable," "turgid," "overwritten," and "obscene."
Filmography
all 7
Movies 6
Writer 3
TV Shows 1
self 1
Novel
Impolex (2009)
Movie
Writer
Prüfstand VII (2002)
Movie
Thomas Pynchon (voice)
The Simpsons (1989)
TV
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Known For
Writing
Gender
Male
Birthday
1937-05-08 (88 years old)
Birth Place
Glen Cove, United States
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Father
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr.
Mother
Catherine s Pynchon
Citizenships
United States
Residences
Manhattan, United States
Awards
MacArthur Fellows Program, National Book Award, William Faulkner Foundation Award, William Dean Howells Medal of the American Academy of Arts and Letters
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