Thomas Pynchon wrote a book.
Thomas Ruggles Pynchon , Jr. ( [ ˈpɪnˌtʃɒn ] , commonly [ ˈpɪntʃən ] born May 8 , 1937 ) is an American novelist . For Gravity 's Rainbow , Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction . Pynchon 's most recent novel , Bleeding Edge , was published on September 17 , 2013 .