Thomas Pynchon
8 May 1937
28 works in the book catalog catalog
Biography
Thomas Pynchon is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works of fiction. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the United States Navy and earned an English degree from Cornell University. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1973), and Mason & Dixon (1997).
Also published as: Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr., T. Pynchon
Most-read books
Gravity's Rainbow
3.9 · 1973 · 300 want to read
The Crying of Lot 49
3.5 · 1965 · 142 want to read
V.
3.7 · 1963 · 64 want to read
Vineland
4.3 · 1990 · 57 want to read
Inherent Vice
3.8 · 2009 · 38 want to read
Mason & Dixon
4.1 · 1997 · 44 want to read
Bleeding Edge
4 · 2013 · 34 want to read
Against the Day
4 · 2006 · 36 want to read
Slow Learner
3.5 · 1984 · 18 want to read
Shadow Ticket
4.5 · 2025 · 4 want to read
Deadly Sins
1993 · 6 want to read
Forms of the Novella
4 · 1981 · 4 want to read
Nelson Algren's own book of lonesome monsters
3 · 1962 · 4 want to read
V. ; The Crying of Lot 49 ; Gravity's Rainbow
Thomas Pynchon
V. ; The Crying of Lot 49 ; Gravity's Rainbow
1993 · 3 want to read
Mortality and Mercy in Vienna
1970 · 1 want to read
Contraluz
2010 · 1 want to read
Low-lands
1978
The secret integration
1980 · 1 want to read
Crying of Lot 49 (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
SparkNotes
Crying of Lot 49 (SparkNotes Literature Guide)
2007
Entropy
1960
A journey into the mind of Watts
1983
The small rain
1982
Un lento aprendizaje
2021
New world writing, no. 16
Thomas Pynchon
New world writing, no. 16
1960