Today, that apartment at the back end of a larger home is a squalid, uninhabited wreck, closed by the city until a host of “inadequacies” – from ventilation and sanitation to the electrical system and heating – is remedied.īut do you suppose that the ratty purple-velveteen couch, now a sodden heap in the front room, is the very spot where Pynchon dreamed up the baroque complexities of his first novel, “V.”? He was writing it during his Seattle years, and it was published not long after he left. Pynchon (“Pyncheon” in one listing) lived at 4709 1/2 Ninth Ave.
I was surprised to learn recently that Pynchon had lived here in the early ’60s indeed, city directories from those years say that a Thomas R. The trail of the elusive author turned cold in 1963, not long after he left, of all places, Seattle. Although Pynchon is now 52, only two photographs of him have ever been published – one from his high-school yearbook, the other taken a few years later.
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