23 Celebrities Who Served in the Military

[Dave Monroe]

Thomas Pynchon served in the Navy.

Considering his monumental importance to American letters and literature in
general, little is actually known about Pynchon, who refuses to be
photographed and doesn't grant interviews.

One of the only confirmed photos of the author of such celebrated
postmodern doorstops as Gravity's Rainbow and Mason & Dixon is from his
two-year stint in the US Navy, which came in the middle of his four years
at Cornell University in the late 1950s.

Pynchon's time in the Navy is evident in many of his major works: V.
follows the misadventures of a recently-discharged Navy sailor in early-60s
New York. Gravity's Rainbow, which takes place in World War II's European
theater and revolves around Nazi Germany's V-2 missile program, is
particularly rife with military-related themes and characters.

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