Thomas Pynchon
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From a foundation in engineering physics and two years aboard a U.S. Navy destroyer, he earned an English degree at Cornell before turning to fiction. Early short stories gave way to the novels V., The Crying of Lot 49, and the award-winning Gravity’s Rainbow, which secured the 1974 National Book Award for Fiction. A brief period as a technical writer for Boeing in Seattle provided material for th…
Biography written by WatchMoods, based on public sources
