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[Dave Monroe]

Thomas Pynchon was born in 1937 and attended Cornell University, where
he  published his first story, "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna," in
Epoch. Soon  after leaving Cornell, he published three short stories -
"Under the Rose,"  in Noble Savage #3; "Entropy," in The Kenyan
Review; and "Low-Lands," in New  World writing #16 - which earned him
an immediate reputation among the  narrow but intense circle of
short-story readers. His novel V. won the  Faulkner Prize as the best
first novel of 1963. A second novel, The Crying  of Lot 49, was
published in 1966. Since then he has published "The Secret
Investigation" in The Saturday Evening Post, and an essay on Los
Angeles in  The New York Times Magazine.

In these few published works, Pynchon has earned a widespread and even
 fanatic acclaim, and remains a uniquely forceful figure on the
American  literary horizon:

"Pynchon surely ranks as the most intelligent, most audacious and most
 accomplished American novelist writing today."    - The Nation

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