Who Is Thomas Pynchon...and Why Did He Take Off With My Wife?
March, 1977
Who is Thomas Pynchon...and Why Did He Take Off with My Wife?Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, JR., is the most famous invisible writer since J. D. Salinger, the most admired since B. Traven, the most difficult since James Joyce. When his first novel. V., was greeted with thundering critical applause in 1963. Time sent a photographer to find him in Mexico City. Pynchon fled to Guanajuato, then an eight-hour bus ride into the mountains, and has eluded all subsequent attempts to get his picture. In 1974. Ne...