As soon as he published his first novel, V. In the early 1960s, he spent some time sleeping on friends’ couches in New York, until he landed a job as a technical writer for a missile technology project with Boeing in Seattle. Upon returning to Cornell, he switched his major to English, started writing short stories based on his time in the navy, and even tried his hand at writing opera libretti. After a reportedly traumatic upbringing full of family conflict, Pynchon finished high school at 16 and briefly studied engineering physics at Cornell University before leaving for a short stint in the U.S. Pynchon was born on Long Island to a comfortable middle-class family with aristocratic roots stretching back to 1630s Massachusetts. However, this has not prevented critics and journalists from assembling a sketch of his life trajectory. Thomas Pynchon is famously unforthcoming about his private life: in more than a half-century, he has never granted an interview, talked openly about his past, or allowed his photo to be published.
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