Thomas Pynchon
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is an American novelist noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For Gravity's Rainbow, Pynchon won the 1973 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.
Pynchon c. 1955
Pynchon, age 16, in his high school senior portrait
During his time as a US Navy sailor, Pynchon is believed to have served aboard the USS Hank during the Suez Crisis.
Glen Cove, New York
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Glen Cove is a city in Nassau County, New York, United States, on the North Shore of Long Island. At the 2020 United States Census, the city population was 28,365 as of the 2020 census.
View of Long Island Sound to the north from Welwyn Preserve in Glen Cove
The Welwyn mansion at the Welwyn Preserve.
The Glen Cove City School District's Landing School in 2021
Friends Academy in 2022.