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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. born May 8, 1937 (is currently 80 years old)
He is an American novelist, best known for his dense and complex novels
His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres
and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics
After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began
composing the novels for which he is best known: V. (1963), The Crying of Lot 49
(1966), and Gravity's Rainbow (1973)
Pynchon is notoriously reclusive; few photographs of him have been published, and
rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s
Pynchon's most recent novel, Bleeding Edge, was published on September 17, 2013