For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, a reclusive American novelist.
This author wrote about Learned English Dog in a work that sees the title characters travel to the Horn of Africa and predict a solar eclipse. DEA agent Hector Zuniga pursues Zoyd Wheeler in another book by this author, who wrote about the Paranoids in a work centering on an organization overcome by Thurn und Taxis. This author of (*) Mason and Dixon wrote a work in which a muted post-horn symbolizes the Trystero organization, which bids on stamps and is investigated by Oedipa Maas. This author of V. also created the character Tyrone Slothrop, whose erections predict V-2 rocket strikes. For 10 points, name this author of The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow, a reclusive American novelist.
This author wrote about Learned English Dog in a work that sees the title characters travel to the Horn of Africa and predict a solar eclipse.
Thomas Ruggles {Pynchon}