Quo Fuit places 3 dated presences for Thomas Pynchon across 3 places, from 1937 to 1965.
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Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.Wikipedia, full article · CC BY-SA
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Where Thomas Pynchon was documented, and when
8 May 1937exact date
Glen Cove, New Yorkattested“Thomas Pynchon was born on May 8, 1937, in Glen Cove, New York on Long Island, one of three children of engineer and politician Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Sr.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
December 1965month
Bennington Collegeattested“For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall’s to remind us how far that piece of paper, still flutte…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
December 1965month
Grand Canyonattested“For we are a nation that can, many of us, toss with all aplomb our candy wrapper into the Grand Canyon itself, snap a color shot and drive away; and we need voices like Oakley Hall’s to remind us how far that piece of paper, still flutte…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
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Places Thomas Pynchon is documented in
Bennington College1 presence · 1965
Glen Cove, New York1 presence · 1937
Grand Canyon1 presence · 1965
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1939 to 1945period
Roxbury, Massachusettsmentioned“In the closing pages of Gravity's Rainbow, there is an apocryphal report that Tyrone Slothrop, the novel's protagonist, played kazoo and harmonica as a guest musician on a record released by the Fool in the 1960s (having magically recove…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1939 to 1945period
New Yorkmentioned“In the closing pages of Gravity's Rainbow, there is an apocryphal report that Tyrone Slothrop, the novel's protagonist, played kazoo and harmonica as a guest musician on a record released by the Fool in the 1960s (having magically recove…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1939 to 1945period
Roseland Ballroommentioned“In the closing pages of Gravity's Rainbow, there is an apocryphal report that Tyrone Slothrop, the novel's protagonist, played kazoo and harmonica as a guest musician on a record released by the Fool in the 1960s (having magically recove…”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1956year
Mediterraneanmentioned“In 1956, he was aboard the destroyer USS Hank in the Mediterranean during the Suez Crisis.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1959year
Viennamentioned“His short story "Mortality and Mercy in Vienna" was published in the Spring 1959 issue of Epoch magazine.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
February 1960month
Seattlementioned“From February 1960 to September 1962, he was employed as a technical writer at Boeing in Seattle, where he compiled safety articles for the Bomarc Service News, a support newsletter for the BOMARC surface-to-air missile deployed by the U.S.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1964year
University of California, Berkeleymentioned“In 1964 he applied to study mathematics as a graduate student at the University of California, Berkeley, but was turned down.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
June 1966month
New Yorkmentioned“In June 1966, Pynchon wrote "A Journey Into the Mind of Watts", a firsthand report on the aftermath and legacy of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles published in The New York Times Magazine.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
June 1966month
Los Angelesmentioned“In June 1966, Pynchon wrote "A Journey Into the Mind of Watts", a firsthand report on the aftermath and legacy of the Watts Riots in Los Angeles published in The New York Times Magazine.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
April 1988month
New Yorkmentioned“In April 1988, Pynchon reviewed Gabriel García Márquez's Love in the Time of Cholera in The New York Times, calling it "a shining and heartbreaking book".”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
June 1993month
New Yorkmentioned“Another article, "Nearer, My Couch, to Thee", was published in June 1993 in The New York Times Book Review, as one in a series of articles in which various writers reflected on each of the Seven Deadly Sins.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1997year
Manhattanmentioned“Shortly before the publication of Mason & Dixon in 1997, a CNN camera crew filmed him in Manhattan.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1998year
New Yorkmentioned“In 1998, over 120 letters that Pynchon had written to his longtime agent, Candida Donadio, were donated by the family of a private collector, Carter Burden, to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
1998year
New York Citymentioned“In 1998, over 120 letters that Pynchon had written to his longtime agent, Candida Donadio, were donated by the family of a private collector, Carter Burden, to the Pierpont Morgan Library in New York City.”source: Wikipedia: Thomas Pynchon
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