FUN FACT: In the 1970s, journalists speculated that Pynchon was in fact the pseudonym of another infamously reclusive author, J.D. Salinger. In 1976, Pynchon responded to an article theorizing such with this succinct letter to the editor: "Not bad. Keep trying." http://americanthrift.blogspot.com/2009/07/summer-reading-thomas-pynchon-edish.html