- Born
- Birth nameThomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr.
- Height5′ 9″ (1.75 m)
- Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937 in Glen Cove, Long Island, New York, USA. He is a writer and actor, known for One Battle After Another (2025), Inherent Vice (2014) and Thomas Pynchon: A Journey Into the Mind of P. (2002). He has been married to Melanie Jackson since 1991. They have one child.
- SpouseMelanie Jackson(1991 - present) (1 child)
- For his "appearance" on The Simpsons (1989), he was depicted with a paper bag over his head.
- Famously reclusive - all known photos of him date from the early 1950s.
- The mysterious Yoyodyne corporation that appears in or in The Crying of Lot 49 and V. has appeared, often as references and in-jokes, in various TV series and movies, such as Star Trek: The Next Generation (1987) (as manufactors of starship parts), More Changes (1995), Angel (1999), Silicon Valley (2014) and The Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai Across the 8th Dimension (1984).
- Reclusive American author best known for his epic novels "Gravity's Rainbow," "V." and "Mason & Dixon.".
- Attended lectures by Vladimir Nabokov while an undergraduate at Cornell University, to the extend that Nabokov's wife Vera Evseevna Slonim claimed she recognized his writing style in the essays Nabokov corrected.
- If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don't have to worry about answers.
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