Portrait of William Pynchon, featured as the frontispiece to The Puritan in England and New England (1896) by Ezra Hoyt Byington.
Featured on PDR in the essay The Price of Suffering: William Pynchon and The Meritorious Price of Our Redemption
William Pynchon, earliest colonial ancestor of the novelist Thomas Pynchon, was a key figure in the early settlement of New England. He also wrote a book which became, at the hands of the Puritans it riled against, one of the first to be banned and burned on American soil. Daniel Crown explores.