Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Pynchon is an American author of English literature. His style is very dense, and lends from influences such as Herman Melville , Vladimir Nabokov, Franz Kafka and William Faulkner . Pynchon grew up in Long Island, New York. He served in the U.S. Navy for two years and earned his English degree from Cornell University. Pynchon is a MacArthur Fellow and the winner of the National Book Award, and has been considered for the Noble Prize for Literature many times. Subjects in his works include history, science and mathematics (among others). Pynchon is a very private person and has very few published photographs since the 1960s.