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Pynchon" width="150"></img></a></div><div class="fbtb-pane fbtb-info-pane fbtb-pane-last"><div class="fbtb-description">Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist based in New York City and noted for his dense and complex works...<a class="fbtb-more" href="http://www.freebase.com/url?c=w&id=/en/thomas_pynchon&mode=i&url=http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/index.html%3Fcurid%3D30903&wid=topicblocks&wurl=http://www.freebase.com/widget/topic%3Fid%3D/en/thomas_pynchon%26panes%3Dimage,article_props" target="_top"> more</a></div><div class="fbtb-properties"><div class="fbtb-property"><span class="fbtb-label">Date of birth: </span>May 8, 1937</div><div class="fbtb-property"><span class="fbtb-label">Place of birth: </span><a class="pv" href="http://www.freebase.com/url?c=w&id=/en/thomas_pynchon&mode=i&url=http://www.freebase.com/view/en/glen_cove&wid=topicblocks&wurl=http://www.freebase.com/widget/topic%3Fid%3D/en/thomas_pynchon%26panes%3Dimage,article_props" target="_top" 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