Pynchon bio

[jbor at bigpond.com]

This is interesting too:

1974 [...] Viking President Tom Guinzberg arranges for comedian 
"Professor" Irwin Corey ("the World's Foremost Expert") to give 
Pynchon's acceptance speech at National Book Award ceremony, April 18.

Seems to imply that it wasn't Pynchon's idea after all.

But I suspect that Royster is mistaken on when Pynchon met Fariña. From 
Pynchon's intro to _Been Down So Long ..._ it appears that it was 1957 
when they first met, not 1953.

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On 01/02/2006:

> Yeah, that and the Halloween picnic thing he wrote for his kid's 
> school newsletter. But the 1964 UC Berkeley rejection factors in 
> nicely with Oedipa's visit there in Lot 49.
>
>> Interesting that he was turned down for graduate study in math at UC 
>> Berkely. That's a new one to me.
>>
>>>  http://digitalcommons.unl.edu/libraryscience/2/
>