For 10 points, name this author of the recent release Against the Day, who wrote such works as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
"The Secret Integration" and "The Small Rain" are among the stories in this author's collection Slow Learner, and he wrote about a small town in California's Anderson Valley in Vineland. The conflict between Tristero and Thurm and Traxis, as well as the character of Oedipa Maas figure into another work, while yet another deals with the fact that V-2 rockets constantly hit the locations of previous sexual conquests by Tyrone Slothrop. For 10 points, name this author of the recent release Against the Day, who wrote such works as The Crying of Lot 49 and Gravity's Rainbow.
"The Secret Integration" and "The Small Rain" are among the stories in this author's collection Slow Learner, and he wrote about a small town in California's Anderson Valley in Vineland.
Thomas {Pynchon}