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Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 on Long Island and educated at Cornell. He received the national book award for Gravity's Rainbow in 1974.
A remarkable book * Sunday Telegraph * To read V. today is to experience Pynchon anew. Blast through the multilayered densities of Gravity's Rainbow, Mason & Dixon, and Against the Day, and you have a young Cornell graduate, an engineer from Long Island, writing with an earnestness you might not have expected, about a world he could never recover * New Yorker * [Pynchon's] ambitions in V. are prodigious, enough to demand comparison less with Perelman than with the Joyce of the Circe episode of Ulysses * New York Review of Books 1963 * The greatest, wildest, most infuriating author of his generation -- Ian Rankin * Guardian * [Pynchon] writes richer comedy than most card-carrying comic novelists, filling his eight novels with hilarious spoofs, outlandish characters, screwball dialogue and zany scenarios * Guardian * Screwballs chase alligators in sewers in a chaotic and worlwide chase for V., while literary styles, brilliant and bizarre, chase each other * Books and Bookmen * The book sails with majesty through caverns measureless to man. Few books haunt the waking or sleeping mind, but this is one * Time * Mr Pynchon writes with enormous skill and virtuosity * Times Literary Supplement. *
