Gravity’s Rainbow and Thomas Pynchon

Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (b. 1937), is an American novelist widely considered one of the most important and influential writers of the postmodern era. He is famously reclusive, and has assiduously avoided public life, leading to a focus on his work rather than his biography. His fiction is known for its dense, encyclopedic style, black humor, complex plots and vast array of scientific, historical, and cultural allusions.