Celebrating their birthday today is Thomas "Hamster" Pynchon, born exactly 12 years after VE day. Having wrote a thick historical novel about WWII this almost prof of Gords existence. Pynchon is known for his complex narratives, frequent digressions into scientific historical and political matters, and being THE big obsessive-to-a-quasi-Asperger's-level shut-in novelist of the 20th century.