Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr born May 8 1937 is an American authorwriter Upon graduation from CU Pynchon had many options including teaching creative writing at Cornell becoming a disk jockey or a film critic for Esquire Gravitys Rainbow was published in 1973 The year after it shared the National Book Award for fiction with Isaac Bashevis Singers A Crown of Feathers It was also unanimously selected by the judges for the Pulitzer Prize in literature but the selection was overruled by the Pulitzer advisory board whose members called it unreadable turgid overwritten and obscene