(born 1937), US novelist; full name Thomas Ruggles Pynchon. An elusive author who shuns public attention, his works abandon the normal conventions of the novel. Notable works: V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1972), Vineland (1990), and Mason and Dixon (1997).
Definition of Pynchon, Thomas in US English:
Pynchon, Thomas
proper nounˈpinCHən
(born 1937), US novelist; full name Thomas Ruggles Pynchon. An elusive author who shuns public attention, his works abandon the normal conventions of the novel. Notable works: V (1963), The Crying of Lot 49 (1966), Gravity's Rainbow (1972), Vineland (1990), and Mason and Dixon (1997).