![]() ![]() ![]() After college Pynchon seems to have spent some time in New York City and then moved to Seattle, where, from 1960 to 1962, he worked for Boeing as a writer of technical material. He returned to Cornell in 1957, took a literature course with Vladimir Nabokov (who, when asked about it years later, did not remember him), and graduated in 1959.Īt this point the trail becomes famously difficult to follow. It was his first exposure to the Beat sensibility-"an eye-opener," as he later described it. He was stationed, for part of that time, in Norfolk, Virginia, where he one day wandered into a bookstore and picked up a copy of the Evergreen Review. In 1955, he left college to serve for two years in the Navy. He attended Oyster Bay High School, and entered Cornell in 1953, majoring in engineering physics before switching to English. He was born in Glen Cove, Long Island, in 1937. Thomas Pynchon is the unlikely offspring of Jack Kerouac and the Cornell English department. ![]()
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