Premise: Thomas Pynchon . After publishing several short stories in the late 1950s and early 1960s , he began composing the novels for which he is best known : V. ( 1963 ) , The Crying of Lot 49 ( 1966 ) , Gravity 's Rainbow ( 1973 ) , and Mason & Dixon ( 1997 ) . Pynchon is also notoriously reclusive ; very few photographs of him have ever been published , and rumors about his location and identity have circulated since the 1960s . Pynchon 's most recent novel , Bleeding Edge , was published on September 17 , 2013 .
Hypothesis: Thomas Pynchon published stories in the 20th century.
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