Illustration showing the burning of Pynchon’s book, from The History of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the Young (1921) by Charles H. Barrows.
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.
Also appearing in the essay…
Burning of Pynchon Book
Date
1921
From
The History of Springfield in Massachusetts, for the Young
