What novel was written by an American writer best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction?
John Barth John Simmons Barth ( ; born May 27, 1930) is an American writer, best known for his postmodernist and metafictional fiction.
Thomas Pynchon Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist. A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels. His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics. For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction.