Premise: Gravity 's Rainbow is a 1973 novel by American writer Thomas Pynchon . Thomas Ruggles Pynchon , Jr. ( [ ˈpɪnˌtʃɒn ] , commonly [ ˈpɪntʃən ] born May 8 , 1937 ) is an American novelist . 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 ) .
Hypothesis: Thomas Pynchon died before writing the novel Gravity's Rainbow.
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