A novel by this author contains an anachronistic pun about a "[b]linking," "[s]hivering," "L.E.D."
A novel by this author contains an anachronistic pun about a "[b]linking," "[s]hivering," "L.E.D." This author included a polymath "Learned English Dog" in a conspiracy-laden novel centrally narrated by Reverend Cherrycoke. The protagonist of a novel by this author fixates on a symbol of a muted post horn and is appointed as the executor of the will of the late Pierce Inverarity. This author of (*) Mason &amp; Dixon wrote about a woman who looks for traces of the Tristero named Oedipa Maas. A novel by this author opens "A screaming comes across the sky," and its title alternatively refers to the structure of the plot or the arclike trajectory of a V-2 rocket. For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
A novel by this author contains an anachronistic pun about a "[b]linking," "[s]hivering," "L.E.D."
Thomas 
Pynchon
 [Thomas Ruggles 
Pynchon
, Jr]