Pynchon is also known for his avoidance of personal publicity: people published ever very few photographs and since the 1960s circulated rumors about his location and identity. Both his fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, styles, and themes, including (but not limited to) the fields of history, science and mathematics. He is a MacArthur Fellow and a recipient of the National Book Award, and is regularly cited as a contender for the Nobel Prize in Literature. Many readers and critics regard Pynchon as one of the finest contemporary authors. After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s, he began composing the novels for which he is best known today: V. Hailing from Long Island, Pynchon spent two years in the Navy of the United States and earned an English degree from Cornell University. People note dense and complex works of fiction of Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Junior, based in city of New York. Novels, such as Gravity's Rainbow (1973), of American writer Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, often depict individuals, struggling against shadowy technocratic forces.
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