Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (, commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
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Date of birth | 8 May 1937
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Place of birth | Glen Cove, New York
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Thomas Pynchon is known for his role in the film Inherent Vice (2014) as (based on the novel by).
He is also known for his role in the TV series The Simpsons (1989) as Thomas Pynchon.
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