CoL 49

[Dave Monroe]

On Wed, Jun 17, 2009 at 3:48 PM, Joseph Tracy<brook7 at sover.net> wrote:

> How is it known that TRP is a devout Catholic, as some suggest? I have never
> read the Jules Siegel piece but don't know where this idea comes from or
> what other biographical sources I am missing....

Pynchon was raised Catholic: According to Siegel, "He went to Mass and
confessed, though to what would be a mystery."

http://www.pynchon.pomona.edu/bio/influences.html

Thomas Pynchon was a Catholic. During much of his adulthood he was an agnostic.

http://www.adherents.com/people/pp/Thomas_Pynchon.html

His religious allusions/referents/what have you do seem to be
specifically Catholic ...