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| pynchon_thomas_ruggles [2023/10/26 15:00] – [Literary Connections] bant07 | pynchon_thomas_ruggles [2023/10/26 15:14] (current) – [Succeeded By] bant07 |
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| Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon is great-grand uncle to award-winning postmodern author Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (1937--) famous for authoring //V// and //Gravity's Rainbow.// His most recent novel, //Inherent Vice//, was published in 2009. //Gravity's Rainbow// features a family called the Slothrops, based on their shared ancestor, William, who arrived in the United States in 1630. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is the great-grandson of William Lyon Pynchon, Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon's brother. | Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon is great-grand uncle to award-winning postmodern author Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, Jr. (1937--) famous for authoring //V// and //Gravity's Rainbow.// Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. is the great-grandson of William Lyon Pynchon, Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon's brother, and //Gravity's Rainbow// features a family called the Slothrops, based on their shared ancestor, William, who arrived in the United States in 1630. |
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| Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel //The House of the Seven Gables (1851)// features the Pyncheon family, also based on Pynchons' ancestors: "Hawthorne knew of no extant Pynchons, and so was surprised to receive two letters of protest from members of the family." One of those writers was Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, who accused Hawthorne of "holding up ... the good name of our Ancestors to the derision and contempt of our countrymen...our Family Circle is an exceedingly small one. Probably there are not more than 20 persons in the whole country bearing the name, all of whom | Nathaniel Hawthorne's novel //The House of the Seven Gables (1851)// features the Pyncheon family, also based on Pynchons' ancestors: "Hawthorne knew of no extant Pynchons, and so was surprised to receive two letters of protest from members of the family." One of those writers was Rev. Thomas Ruggles Pynchon, who accused Hawthorne of "holding up ... the good name of our Ancestors to the derision and contempt of our countrymen...our Family Circle is an exceedingly small one. Probably there are not more than 20 persons in the whole country bearing the name, all of whom |
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| [[jackson_abner|]] | [[jackson_abner|Abner Jackson '37]] |
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| [[smith_george_williamson|George Williamson Smith]] | [[smith_george_williamson|George Williamson Smith H'87]] |
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