Thomas Pynchon wrote the novel V. in 1963 .
After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s , Thomas Pynchon began composing the novels for which he is best known : The Crying of Lot 49 ( 1966 ) , Gravity 's Rainbow ( 1973 ) , V. ( 1995 ) , and Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ) .
Thomas Pynchon