Tariq Khalil hires Doc Sportello to find Glen Charlock before Doc and his lawyer Sauncho take a schooner from the Golden Fang corporation in one of this man's novels, and he wrote a novella in which Meatball Mulligan helps to end a party by calming people down one by one and Callisto discusses Clausius' Theorem and the Laws of Thermodynamics while attempting to care for a sick bird.  
Tariq Khalil hires Doc Sportello to find Glen Charlock before Doc and his lawyer Sauncho take a schooner from the Golden Fang corporation in one of this man's novels, and he wrote a novella in which Meatball Mulligan helps to end a party by calming people down one by one and Callisto discusses Clausius' Theorem and the Laws of Thermodynamics while attempting to care for a sick bird.  This author wrote about Miles, Dean, Serge and Leonard, who make up a band called The Paranoids in one more famous work, which also sees Dr. Hilarius prescribe LSD to Oedipa Maas; and he also created Byron the Bulb in another work which sees Major Duane Marvy being kidnapped and castrated in place of Tyrone Slothrop.  For 10 points, name this author of Inherent Vice, "Entropy", The Crying of Lot 49, and Gravity's Rainbow.
Tariq Khalil hires Doc Sportello to find Glen Charlock before Doc and his lawyer Sauncho take a schooner from the Golden Fang corporation in one of this man's novels, and he wrote a novella in which Meatball Mulligan helps to end a party by calming people down one by one and Callisto discusses Clausius' Theorem and the Laws of Thermodynamics while attempting to care for a sick bird.  
Thomas {Pynchon} [accept {Inherent Vice} before “{this man}”]