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'''Thomas Pynchon''' (Born 1937) was an American author. His works include ''V'' (1963), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and ''Vineland'' (1990).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>

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 ==Life and works==
-Pynchon was born May 8, 1937.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/thomas-pynchon-9449101</ref>  He studied at [[Cornell University]] in both arts and sciences, during which time he served in the Navy for two years.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/thomas-pynchon</ref>  He rejected teaching offers to write short stories in Greenwich Village and later worked at Boeing in Seattle, during which time he produced several short stories, but he is better known for novels such as ''V'', about Benny Profane's wandering about the eastern United States and Herbert Stencil's tracking of a woman called ''V'', ''The Crying of Lot 49'', about a woman called Oedipa who attempts to discover a 16th century postal group called the Tristero, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', ''Vineland'', about a group trying to expose Richard Nixon's secrets, and ''Mason & Dixon'', a ridiculous retelling of some 18th century American history with mechanical animals and real politicians.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/thomas-pynchon</ref>  ''Gravity's Rainbow'', about a German V-2 rocket and the people that follow it shortly after World War Two, is considered his most famous work, but all of his works are known for complicated and unclear plots.<ref>"Pynchon, Thomas."  ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>
+Pynchon was born May 8, 1937.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/thomas-pynchon-9449101</ref>  He studied at [[Cornell University]] in both arts and sciences, during which time he served in the Navy for two years.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/thomas-pynchon</ref>  He rejected teaching offers to write short stories in Greenwich Village and later worked at Boeing in Seattle, during which time he produced several short stories.
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	'''Thomas Pynchon''' (Born 1937) was an American author. His works include ''V'' (1963), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and ''Vineland'' (1990).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>		'''Thomas Pynchon''' (Born 1937) was an American author. His works include ''V'' (1963), ''Gravity's Rainbow'' (1973), and ''Vineland'' (1990).<ref>''The New York Public Library Student's Desk Reference''. Prentice Hall, New York: 1991.</ref>
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		+	==Life and works==
		+	Pynchon was born May 8, 1937.<ref>https://www.biography.com/people/thomas-pynchon-9449101</ref> He studied at [[Cornell University]] in both arts and sciences, during which time he served in the Navy for two years.<ref>http://www.encyclopedia.com/people/literature-and-arts/american-literature-biographies/thomas-pynchon</ref> He rejected teaching offers to write short stories in Greenwich Village and later worked at Boeing in Seattle, during which time he produced several short stories, but he is better known for novels such as ''V'', about Benny Profane's wandering about the eastern United States and Herbert Stencil's tracking of a woman called ''V'', ''The Crying of Lot 49'', about a woman called Oedipa who attempts to discover a 16th century postal group called the Tristero, ''Gravity's Rainbow'', ''Vineland'', about a group trying to expose Richard Nixon's secrets, and ''Mason & Dixon'', a ridiculous retelling of some 18th century American history with mechanical animals and real politicians.<ref>http://www.famousauthors.org/thomas-pynchon</ref> ''Gravity's Rainbow'', about a German V-2 rocket and the people that follow it shortly after World War Two, is considered his most famous work, but all of his works are known for complicated and unclear plots.<ref>"Pynchon, Thomas." ''Encyclopedia Britannica Online''.</ref>

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