High school senior of American author <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Pynchon" class="extiw" title="w:Thomas Pynchon">Thomas Pynchon</a>, age 16, from the 1953 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Bay_High_School" class="extiw" title="w:Oyster Bay High School">Oyster Bay High School</a> yearbook. The caption reads:
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<p><style data-mw-deduplicate="TemplateStyles:r369756387">.mw-parser-output .smallcaps{font-variant:small-caps}</style><span class="smallcaps">Pynchon, Thomas</span>
</p><p>"Pynch"; P &amp; G [<i>Purple &amp; Gold</i>, the school’s student newspaper]; Yearbook; Trade Fair 2,<br>
3, 4; Sr. Play student director; Spanish<br>
Club 3, 4; Honor Society 3, 4; likes pizza;<br>
dislikes hypocrites; pet possession, a type-<br>
writer; aspires to be a physicist.
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Photographer unknown, presumably an anonymous work-for-hire on behalf of Oyster Bay High School.
1953
* <b>Original source</b>: <i>The Oysterette</i> yearbook, 1953, published by Oyster Bay High School in <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oyster_Bay_(hamlet),_New_York" class="extiw" title="w:Oyster Bay (hamlet), New York">Oyster Bay, New York</a>.
<ul><li><b>Immediate source</b>: Reproduced on <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="https://archive.org/details/trent_0116404000709/page/176/mode/2up">page 176</a> of Clifford Mead's 1989 book <i>Thomas Pynchon: a Bibliography of Primary and Secondary Materials</i>, published by the Dalkey Archive Press, <a href="//commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:BookSources/0-916583-37-6" title="Special:BookSources/0-916583-37-6">ISBN 0-916583-37-6</a>. Scanned copy of the book accessed via the Internet Archive. Minor retouching by uploader—see upload history for unretouched original.</li></ul>