Question: Are Tracy Chevalier and Thomas Pynchon both novelists?
Context: Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 1999 historical novel written by Tracy Chevalier.  Set in 17th century Delft, Holland, the novel was inspired by Delft school painter Johannes Vermeer's painting "Girl with a Pearl Earring".  Chevalier presents a fictional account of Vermeer, the model, and the painting.  The novel was adapted into a 2003 film of the same name and a 2008 play. Inherent Vice is a novel by American author Thomas Pynchon, originally published in August 2009.  A darkly comic detective novel set in 1970s California, the plot follows sleuth Larry "Doc" Sportello whose ex-girlfriend asks him to investigate a scheme involving a prominent land developer.  Themes of drug culture and counterculture are prominently featured.  Critical reception was largely positive, with reviewers describing "Inherent Vice" as one of Pynchon's more accessible works.  The novel was adapted into a 2014 film of the same name. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2008 play.  Adapted by David Joss Buckley from the novel of the same title by Tracy Chevalier, it premiered at the Cambridge Arts Theatre.  It then received its London premiere at the Theatre Royal Haymarket on 29 September 2008, directed by Joe Dowling and designed by Peter Mumford.  Its London run had been scheduled to end on 1 November, but after largely poor reviews and in a poor financial climate it closed early on 18 October. Against the Day is a 2006 historical novel by Thomas Pynchon.  The narrative takes place between the 1893 Chicago World's Fair and the time immediately following World War I and features more than a hundred characters spread across the United States, Europe, Mexico, Central Asia, and "one or two places not strictly speaking on the map at all," according to the book jacket blurb written by Pynchon.  Like its predecessors, "Against the Day" is an example of historiographic metafiction or metahistorical romance, and at 1,085 pages it is the longest of Pynchon's novels to date. The Crying of Lot 49 is a novella by Thomas Pynchon, first published in 1965.  The shortest of Pynchon's novels, it is about a woman, Oedipa Maas, possibly unearthing the centuries-old conflict between two mail distribution companies, Thurn und Taxis and the Trystero (or Tristero).  The former actually existed and was the first firm to distribute postal mail; the latter is Pynchon's invention.  The novel is often classified as a notable example of postmodern fiction. " Time" included the novel in its "TIME 100 Best English-language Novels from 1923 to 2005". Thomas Ruggles Pynchon Jr. ( , commonly ; born May 8, 1937) is an American novelist.  A MacArthur Fellow, he is noted for his dense and complex novels.  His fiction and non-fiction writings encompass a vast array of subject matter, genres and themes, including history, music, science, and mathematics.  For "Gravity's Rainbow", Pynchon won the 1974 U.S. National Book Award for Fiction. Girl with a Pearl Earring is a 2003 drama film directed by Peter Webber.  The screenplay was adapted by screenwriter Olivia Hetreed, based on the novel "Girl with a Pearl Earring" by Tracy Chevalier.  Scarlett Johansson stars as Griet, a young 17th-century servant in the household of the Dutch painter Johannes Vermeer (played by Colin Firth) at the time he painted "Girl with a Pearl Earring" (1665) in the city of Delft in Holland.  Other cast members include Tom Wilkinson, Cillian Murphy, and Judy Parfitt. Days Between Stations is the first novel by Steve Erickson.  Upon publication in 1985 it received notable praise from Thomas Pynchon and has been cited as an influence by novelists such as Jonathan Lethem and Mark Z. Danielewski.  It has been translated into French, Spanish, Italian, Russian and Japanese.  Several stories intersect in this novel: Lauren and Jason's unhappy marriage, Lauren's love affair with Adrien-Michel, and a lost silent film titled "The Death of Marat". Arc d'X (1993), by Steve Erickson, is an Avantpop novel.  Upon publication in 1993 it received wide attention from other novelists such as Thomas Pynchon, Tom Robbins and William Gibson, and it has been translated into Italian, Japanese and other languages. Tracy Chevalier FRSL (born October 19, 1962) is an American-British historical novelist.  She has written eight novels.  She is best known for her second novel, "Girl with a Pearl Earring", which was adapted as a 2003 film starring Scarlett Johansson and Colin Firth.
Answer: yes