Follow-up, or not, on the news?

[tuaregss at yahoo.com]

Appears he did. Tho' where would one find proceedings of the ceremony?
https://artsandletters.org/pressrelease/writer-thomas-pynchon-wins-inaugural-100000-christopher-lightfoot-walker-award-in-literature/?frompa=true

   On ‎Wednesday‎, ‎August‎ ‎22‎, ‎2018‎ ‎03‎:‎35‎:‎10‎ ‎PM‎ ‎MDT, Krafft, John M. <krafftjm at miamioh.edu> wrote:  
 
 In March or April, the American Academy of Arts and Letters announced
that it would award Pynchon a $100,000 lifetime-achievement award at a
May 23 ceremony it was assumed Pynchon would not attend. I was out of
the country in late May and so might have missed the news, but I have
still not been able to find out whether the ceremony took place,
whether himself attended after all (probably not, or that _would_ have
been news), whether the award was quashed, or what. Does anyone have
solid information?

John


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