Thomas Pynchon
Autor von Die Versteigerung von No. 49
Über den Autor
Thomas Pynchon was born in Glen Cove, New York on May 8, 1937. In 1959 he graduated with a B.A. in English from Cornell, where he had taken Vladimir Nabokov's famous course in modern literature after studying engineering physics and serving in the U.S. Navy for two years. He worked as a technical mehr anzeigen writer at Boeing for two and a half years. Pynchon won the Faulkner First Novel Award for V. in 1963, and in The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), again his symbolism and commentary on the United States and human isolation have been praised as intricate and masterly, though some reviewers found it to be maddeningly dense. With this book Pynchon won the Rosenthal Foundation Award. Gravity's Rainbow, winner of the National Book Award for Fiction in 1974, is in part a fictional elegy and meditation on death and an encyclopedic work that jumps through time. Pynchon has also written numerous essays, reviews, and introductions, plus the fictional works Slow Learner, Vineland, Mason & Dixon, Against the Day, and Inherent Vice. His title Bleeding Edge made The New York Times Best Seller List for 2013. He is famous for his reclusive nature, although he has made several animated appearances on The Simpsons television series. (Bowker Author Biography) weniger anzeigen
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Storming the Reality Studio: A Casebook of Cyberpunk and Postmodern Science Fiction (1991) — Mitwirkender — 248 Exemplare
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The Graphic Canon, Vol. 3: From Heart of Darkness to Hemingway to Infinite Jest (2013) — Mitwirkender — 146 Exemplare
Fifty Years of the American Short Story from the O. Henry Awards 1919-1970 (1970) — Mitwirkender — 13 Exemplare
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- Gebräuchlichste Namensform
- Pynchon, Thomas
- Rechtmäßiger Name
- Pynchon, Thomas Ruggles, Jr.
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- Pynchon, Thomas
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- 1937-05-08
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- male
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- USA
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- Glen Cove, New York, USA
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- Glen Cove, New York, USA
Seattle, Washington, USA
Manhattan Beach, California, USA
New York, New York, USA
Ithaca, New York, USA
Aptos, California, USA - Ausbildung
- Cornell University (A.B. ∙ 1959)
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- Jackson, Melanie (Ehefrau)
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- United States Navy
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- MacArthur Fellowship (1988)
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- Melanie Jackson
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Group Read, April 2019: Vineland in 1001 Books to read before you die (Mai 2019)
The Crying of Lot 49 in Someone explain it to me... (März 2017)
Club Read 2013 : Kesbooks reading plan in Club Read 2013 (Juni 2013)
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