Victoria Pynchon (born 1952), American lawyer, attorney mediator, author and writer
The keywords upon publishing forums allude to the influence of Kafka and Pynchon.
Nancy Marchand, actress most famous for her portrayal of Margaret Pynchon in Lou Grant and, in later life, Livia Soprano on The Sopranos
The song "Sailing to Philadelphia" from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also has strong references to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.
The song Sailing to Philadelphia from Mark Knopfler's album of the same name, also refers to Mason and Dixon, and was inspired by Pynchon's book.
Pynchon's main character, private investigator Larry "Doc" Sportello, praises Staccato as "the shamus of shamuses," ranking him with past greats Philip Marlowe and Sam Spade.
In Thomas Pynchon's Gravity's Rainbow, the Infant Tyrone's penile erections are conditioned in a manner modeled on Watson and Rayner's conditioning of Little Albert, to both satirize behaviorism and wind the book's plot around Pynchon's themes of control and the institutional corruption of innocence.
Mason & Dixon, the 1997 novel by Thomas Pynchon featuring the surveyors as characters
McClintic Sphere, fictional character in Thomas Pynchon novel V.
He admitted that in his writing he was influenced by the literature of Céline, Hrabal, Burroughs and Pynchon.
Chapin, Pynchon's son John and another Pynchon son-in-law, Elizur Holyoke, were appointed town Commissioners (essentially a board of magistrates).
An additional reference to the sewer alligator exists in Thomas Pynchon's first novel, V..
Pynchon, the daughter of the late superior court Judge Donald Pike, grew up in La Mesa in San Diego County and graduated in 1970 from Helix High School.
The English rock band Radiohead named their website's merchandise and fan WASTE network W.A.S.T.E. after Thomas Pynchon's Crying of Lot 49.